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The stage might be made a perpetual source of the most noble and useful entertainment, were it under proper regulations.: Joseph Addison

The work may be well performed, but will never take if it is not set off with proper scenes.: Joseph Addison

The poetry of operas is generally as exquisitely ill as the music is good.: Joseph Addison

Murders and executions are always transacted behind the scenes in the French theatre.: Joseph Addison

Dramatical or representative poesy is, as it were, a visible history; for it sets out the image of things as if they were present, and history as if they were past.: Francis Bacon

Inductions are out of date, and a prologue in verse is as stale as a black velvet cloak.: Beaumont and Fletcher

All the plays of Æschylus and the Henry VI. of Shakespeare are examples of a trilogy.: William Thomas Brande

On the Greek stage, a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Congreve and the author of The Relapse being the principals in the dispute, I satisfy them; as for the volunteers, they will find themselves affected with the misfortune of their friends.: Jeremy Collier

Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium, and at an era of English society when the weight of that opprobrium was heaviest.: Thomas De Quincey

The unity of piece we neither find in Aristotle, Horace, or any who have written of it, till in our age the French poets first made it a precept of the stage.: John Dryden

Aristotle has left undecided the duration of the action.: John Dryden

In the unity of place they are full as scrupulous, which many of their critics limit to that very spot of ground where the play is supposed to begin.: John Dryden

When in the knot of the play no other way is left for the discovery, then let a god descend, and clear the business to the audience.: John Dryden

No incident in the piece or play but must carry on the main design: all things else are like six fingers to the hand, when nature can do her work with five.: John Dryden

One of these advantages, which Corneille has laid down, is the making choice of some signal and long-expected day, whereon the action of the play is to depend.: John Dryden

When these petty intrigues of a play are so ill ordered that they have no coherence with the other, I must grant that Lysidius has reason to tax that want of due connection; for co-ordination in a play is as dangerous and unnatural as in a state.: John Dryden

The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.: John Dryden

He gives you an account of himself, and of his returning from the country, in monologue; to which unnatural way of narration Terence is subject in all his plays.: John Dryden

A play ought to be a just image of human nature.: John Dryden

The French have brought on themselves that dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination, which may be observed in all their plays.: John Dryden

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.: John Dryden

The world is running mad after farce, the extremity of bad poetry; or rather the judgment that is fallen upon dramatic poetry.: John Dryden

An heroic play ought to be an imitation of an heroic poem, and consequently love and valour ought to be the subject of it: both these Sir William Davenant began to shadow; but it was so as discoverers draw their maps with headlands and promontories.: John Dryden

Ben Jonson, in his Sejanus and Catiline, has given us this olio of a play, this unnatural mixture of comedy and tragedy.: John Dryden

I must bear this testimony to Otway’s memory, that the passions are truly touched in his Venice Preserved.: John Dryden

Some of these masques were moral dramas, where the virtues and vices were impersonated.: Bishop Richard Hurd

The circumscription of time wherein the whole drama begins and ends is, according to ancient rule and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours.: John Milton

This would make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common rhymers and play-writers be.: John Milton

Scaliger defines a mime to be a poem imitating any action to stir up laughter.: John Milton

The Romans had three plays acted one after another on the same subject: the first, a real tragedy; the second, the ateblan; the third, a satire or exode, a kind of farce of one act.: Earl of Roscommon

Men of wit, learning, and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.: Jonathan Swift

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