The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810Though the term "tragedy" has...
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The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

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The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

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Author: Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen),-1820?
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

Though the term "tragedy" has from the first productions of schylus to the present time, been exclusively appropriated to actions of a serious nature and melancholy catastrophe, there is reason to believe that it originally included also exhibitions of a pleasant, or comic kind. The rude satires, and gross mummery which occupied the stage, or rather the cart, of Thespis, were certainly calculated to provoke mirth in the multitude. By what has already been shown, the reader is apprised that the word, in its original sense, bore no relation whatever to those passions and subjects, to the representations of which it is now applied; but meant simply a dramatic action performed at the feast of the goat, in honour of Bacchus. Thus the different provinces of the drama then undistinguished, were confounded under one term, and constituted the prime trunk from which sprung forth the two branches of tragedy and comedy separatelythe first in point of time usurping the [Pg 270]original title of the parent stock, and retaining it ever after. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Author: Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
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