By Brian Vickers
ISBN-10: 0415134048
ISBN-13: 9780415134040
The serious Heritage gathers jointly a wide physique of severe resources on significant figures in literature. every one quantity provides modern responses to a writer's paintings, permitting pupil and researcher to learn the cloth themselves.
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A good Play shu’d be like a good stuff, closely and evenly wrought, without any breakes, thrums, or loose ends in ’um, or like a good Picture well painted and designed; the Plot or Contrivement, the Design, the Writing, the Colors, and Counterplot, the Shaddowings, with other Embellishments: or finally, it shu’d be like a well contrived Garden, cast into its Walks and Counterwalks, betwixt an Alley and a Wilderness, neither too plain nor too confus’d. Of all Arts, that of the Dramatick Poet is the most difficult and most subject to censure; for in all others, 43 they write onely of some particular subject, as the Mathematician of Mathematicks, or Philosopher of Philosophy; but in that, the Poet must write of every thing, and every one undertakes to judge of it.
The merry Greeke, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated, and deserted lye As they were not of Natures family. Yet must I not give Nature all: Thy Art, 22 SHAKESPEARE VOL. I 1623–1692 My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses anvile: turne the same, (And himselfe with it) that he thinkes to frame; Or for the lawrell, he may gaine a scorne, For a good Poet’s made, as well as borne.
Viol. We’ll sing like Nightingales, and they sing at night. Esch. Take heed; for the Grand-Watch does walk the Round. Beat. Signior, when did you hear of Nightingales Taken by the Watch? Luc. Madam, we’ll sing. The Governour May come (if he please) and sigh to the Chorus. Esch. I’ll bear no part, Sir, in your Song, Nor in your punishment. [Exit Eschalus The SONG. Luc. Our Ruler has got the vertigo of State; The world turns round in his politick pate. He stears in a Sea, where his Course cannot last; And bears too much sail for the strength of his Mast.