 | 1853 - 1034 pages
...time of the story greatly beyond the space to which it was necessary to confine it on the Greek stage. The division into acts is really that distinction...it its peculiar character. Dr. Johnson has observed of modem plays, ' The time required by the fable elapses, for the most part, between the acts ; for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 pages
...nor Athens, but a modern theatre 1 By supposition, as place is introduced, time iuav be extended : the time required by the fable elapses for the most part between the acts ; for, of so mncn of the action as is reamx. i. / presented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 526 pages
...each complete in itself, although f ollowing each other according to a natural order of succession, like the acts of a play. Viewed in this light, it...it its peculiar character. Dr. Johnson has observed that, in modern plays, " The time required by the fable elapses, for the most part, between the acts... | |
 | 1866 - 520 pages
...each complete in itself, although following each other according to a natural order of succession, like the acts of a play. Viewed in this light, it will be perceived that the division into act* is really that distinction of the modem drama which, more than anything else, gives to it its... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pages
...Sicily nor Athens, but a modern theatre ? By supposition, as plnce is introduced, time may be extended: the time required by the fable elapses for the most...between the acts : for, of so much of the action as is re8HAK. I. / presented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act, preparations... | |
 | John Genest - 1882 - 720 pages
...and then Sicily, which was always known to be neither Sicily, nor Athens, but a modern theatre ? — the time required by the fable elapses for the most part between the acts — and time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination — a lapse of years... | |
 | Doris Gunnell - 1909 - 346 pages
...modem theatre. By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended : the time required by thé fable elapses for the most part between the acts ; for, of so much of the action as is represented,the real and poetical duration isthe same. If, in the first act, preparations for war certain... | |
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VOL. x. o of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act, preparations for war against... 
