A Study of the Drama1910 |
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accept acters action actors actual Æschylus Aristotle artist asserted audience Ben Jonson Brunetière century char characters chorus chronicle-play closet-drama comedy comedy-of-masks comic composed contemporary convention Corneille critics declared diagram dialogue dramatic poets dramatist earlier Edipus Elizabethan English episodes essential example exist fact farce feel France French Greek Hamlet hero human Iago Ibsen interest Italian Julius Cæsar less literary literature Lope de Vega lyric masterpieces medieval melodrama method modern Molière Molière's moral never novel once Othello ourselves performance pieces Plautus play playgoers playhouse playmaking playwright plot poem poetic drama poetry present prose prose-fiction reveal Romeo scenery scenes School for Scandal Scribe semi-medieval Shak Shakspere Shakspere's Sheridan single soliloquy Sophocles spectators speech stage story successive Tartuffe theater theater of Dionysus theatrical theme things three unities tion to-day tragedy tragedy-of-blood tragic true verse Victor Hugo words wrote