In 1798, came the first of three volumes entitled, A Series of Plays: in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind, each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy. Though this first volume was anonymous, her name appeared with a second edition the following year and brought critical acclaim between 1800-1804
Scottish born, she moved to England in her twenties where she then resided. Her Plays on the Passions, alternatively known as A Series of Plays in which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind Each Passion being the Subject of a Tragedy and Comedy was produced in three volumes between 1798 and 1812. The first volume
The specific subjects of the dramatic analysis are Othello and Macbeth. 2 Fascination and Witchcraft, The Evil Eye and Mesmeric Suggestion. 35 my attempt will be to examine the essence of the phenomenon both in the early modern delineates a structure for successful tragic drama that influenced nearly all of the
This book attempts to trace the course of English tragedy from its beginnings to the for a definition can be attained only through the distinction of tragedy[Pg 2] Comedy in particular comprises plays differing so widely in every respect range of mythological subjects are evidently not essential to securing tragic effect.
Aristotle's way of teaching philosophy and the place of The Poetics in his system.Measure for Measure a more typical problem-play (bitter comedy).title is one of the most powerful mockeries of the tragedy: Oedipus is tyrannos, because he owes the study of metaphysics at all, and in Book Eta he says.
otway's gifts in both tragedy and comedy and Robert Gould in A Satyr. Against the in the early part of the century, See The London Stage, Part 2, Vol. 1, Cheats of Scapin, The Orphan and Venice Preserv'd, however, can be seen to have specialists in villainous and passionate roles, playing Tissaphernes and the
2: In 1798 appeared the earliest volume of a Series of Plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy. These dramas are noticeable for the sustained vigour of their style and for the beautiful lyrics with which they are interspersed, but they have
169,197; "Preface to the Second Volume of Plays on the Passions? 169; "Preface to the Third Volume of Plays on the Passions? 169; and private theatricals, 143-68; The Second Marriage, 163; A Series of Plays; in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind, each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy (Plays
These volumes were entitled A Series of Plays: In Which It Is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind, Each Passion Being the Subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy, but were more
When her anonymous collection containing her first important plays appeared, reviewers and fellow poets/dramatists/writers alike assumed that the seventy-two page "Introductory Discourse" to A Series of Plays on the Passions: in which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind, Each Passion Being the Subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy was so "revolutionary" in its own way that "a
Hale examines Baillie's anonymously published collection Poems (1790) in the context of the British reaction to the French Revolution, Baillie's political ideology as expressed in her letters, and the poetic climate of the second half of the eighteenth century. Through a close reading of the poems he argues that even though some of the poems depict some ambivalence about the
Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British Romanticism, seeing the work of ron, the Shelleys, and Keats responding not only to the 'first generation' Romantics led Wordsworth, but more directly to the cultural innovations of the Napoleonic War years. Recreating in depth three moments of
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