A Guide to Greek Tragedy for English Readers, Volume 46Percival, 1891 - 335 pagina's |
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Pagina 25
... sometimes done , as in Medea and Macbeth , by showing flashes of the higher consciousness in the person who is enthralled to the lower ( Eur . Med . 1078-80 ) — καὶ μανθάνω μὲν οἷα δρᾶν μέλλω κακα · θυμὸς δὲ κρείσσων τῶν ἐμῶν ...
... sometimes done , as in Medea and Macbeth , by showing flashes of the higher consciousness in the person who is enthralled to the lower ( Eur . Med . 1078-80 ) — καὶ μανθάνω μὲν οἷα δρᾶν μέλλω κακα · θυμὸς δὲ κρείσσων τῶν ἐμῶν ...
Pagina 33
... sometimes said that the characters in a play of Aeschylus or Sophocles are typical , while those of an Elizabethan play are individual.1 The statement rests upon undoubted facts , but , as thus broadly put , is apt to be under- stood in ...
... sometimes said that the characters in a play of Aeschylus or Sophocles are typical , while those of an Elizabethan play are individual.1 The statement rests upon undoubted facts , but , as thus broadly put , is apt to be under- stood in ...
Pagina 35
... sometimes assumed . A recent critic1 has objected to the received under- standing of the Agamemnon , that the King could not arrive from Troy within the day . The asser- tion is indisputable , but the objection is not to be sustained ...
... sometimes assumed . A recent critic1 has objected to the received under- standing of the Agamemnon , that the King could not arrive from Troy within the day . The asser- tion is indisputable , but the objection is not to be sustained ...
Pagina 38
... sometimes veils from us the artistic harmony , but the work presupposes a higher degree of conscious self - analysis than had any place in ancient Greek art . The arena of conflict is no longer the family or the state , Olympus or the ...
... sometimes veils from us the artistic harmony , but the work presupposes a higher degree of conscious self - analysis than had any place in ancient Greek art . The arena of conflict is no longer the family or the state , Olympus or the ...
Pagina 39
... sometimes assumed1 - while it is certainly true that modern tragedy , like modern sculpture , sprang into life together with the revival of classical learning , it is not less 1 Wilson's Hindu Theatre , Introd . p . II ; see Pollard's ...
... sometimes assumed1 - while it is certainly true that modern tragedy , like modern sculpture , sprang into life together with the revival of classical learning , it is not less 1 Wilson's Hindu Theatre , Introd . p . II ; see Pollard's ...
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action actor Aesch Aeschylean Aeschylus Aeschylus and Sophocles Agamemnon Ajax Alcestis amongst ancient Antigone Antiopa appears Aristophanes Aristotle Athenian Athens Atossa Attic audience Bacchic Bacchus Books to consult Cambyses character chief person Choëphoroe choral Chorus Clytemnestra Creon Darius death Deianira dialogue Dionysiac Dionysus divine effect Electra element emotion English entrance epic Erinyes essential Eteocles Eumenides Euripides fables Fate feeling followed fragments genius gods Greek tragedy hath Heracles hero heroic horror human imagination impression Iphigenia legend less Lycus lyric Macbeth Medea Messenger modern motive narrative nature Neoptolemus Odysseus Oedipus Coloneus Oedipus Tyrannus orchestra Orestes parodos passion Persae Phaethon Philoctetes play poet's poetry Praxaspes present Prometheus rendered Salamis satyric drama says scene Seven against Thebes Shakespeare Soph Sophoclean Sophocles sorrow speak spectator speech spirit stage stasimon sympathy theatre Theban Theseus thou thought tion Trachiniae tradition tragic poet translation trilogy unity verse whole worship Zeus
Populaire passages
Pagina 4 - She dwells with Beauty — Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to Poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine, Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine; His soul shall taste the sadness of her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung.
Pagina 38 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Pagina 5 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Pagina 217 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Pagina 29 - I have endeavoured in this play to follow the practice of the ancients, who, as Mr Rymer has judiciously observed, are and ought to be our masters.
Pagina 213 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Pagina 29 - English theatre requires. Particularly, the action is so much one, that it is the only of the kind without episode, or underplot; every scene in the tragedy conducing to the main design, and every act concluding with a turn of it.
Pagina 24 - We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Pagina 3 - Even so the distant funeral : the few mourners on horseback, with their plaids wrapped around them — the father heading the procession as they enter the river, and pointing out the ford by which his darling is to be carried on the last long road — none of the subordinate figures in discord with the general tone of the incident, but seeming just accessions, and no more ; — this is affecting.
Pagina 212 - He taught us little; but our soul Had felt him like the thunder's roll. With shivering heart the strife we saw Of passion with eternal law; And yet with reverential awe We watched the fount of fiery life Which served for that Titanic strife.