The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 3, March 1810

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 3, March 1810

If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browsers character set or file encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browsers default font. Typographical errors are marked with mouse-hover popups. Spellings were changed only when there was an unambiguous error, or the word occurred elsewhere with the expected spelling. Lower-case titles such as lady Macbeth or captain Barclay are standard. No attempt was made to regularize the use of quotation marks, except to supply those that were clearly missing. Nested double quotes are standard. Afew missing or incorrect punctuation marks in the Index were silently regularized. In the play, forms such as twas or tis are consistently written without initial apostrophe. schylus and Shakspeare have each been styled the father of the drama of his country: yet their claims to this distinction stand on very different grounds. schylus laid the plan and foundation of the Grecian tragedy and built upon it; but to his successor belongs the glory of improving upon his invention. Shakspeare raised the drama of his country at once to the utmost degree of perfection: succeeding poets have been able to do nothing more than walk in the path trod by him, at an immense distance, and endeavour to copy but without equalling his perfections. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 26178
Author: Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
Release Date: Aug 3, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen), -1820?