Essays on the Drama

acting actors afford Aristophanes artistic Athenian Athens attractive audience Author Beaumont and Fletcher beauty better Bishop century character Charles Kemble Cheaper Edition Christian Church classical comedy contemporaries Court critical Demosthenes drama dramatists Dryden Dyce earnest effect elder drama English equally Essays Euripides exhibited fair fancy favour festivals G. C. LEWIS genius grace Greece Greek Henry VIII History humour imagination intellectual J. W. DONALDSON John Jonson Kean King language least Lectures less literature live London Lord lyrical Macbeth managers matic Menander Menander's ment mirth modern moral nearly noble Notes occasionally Octavo palæstra passion patent theatres performance Pericles plays playwrights plot Poems poet poetic poetry political pomp popular amusements present Princess's Theatre Queen racters recreations regard render representation respect Roman Rome scene scenic Second Edition Shakespeare songs spectacle spectators spirit stage taste theatre theatrical tion tragedy verse Volumes writing