Poetic Justice in the Drama; the History of An Ethical Principle in Literary Criticism
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It would require that the satisfaction be complete and full, e're the Malefactor goes off the Stage and nothing left to * Ibid., p. 23. "Rymer's elaborate directions for removing the Romantic offence of this play, and adjusting it to classical correctness and decorum are among the most involuntary funny things in Criticism." Saintsbury, in A History of Criticism, II., p. 394. [156] "TkAGEDlieS OF THE LAST AgE" God Almighty, and another world. Nor will it suffer that the Spectators trust the Poe...t for a Hell behind the scenes ; the fire must roar in the conscience of the Criminal, the fiends and furies be conjured up to their faces, with a world of machine and horrid spectacles; and yet the Criminal could never move pitty. Therefore amongst the Ancients we find no Malefactors of this kind; a wilful Murderer is with them as strange and unknown, as a Parricide to the old Roman. Yet need we not fancy that they were squeamish, or unacquainted with any of these great lumping crimes of that age; when we remember their Oedipus, Orestes, or Medea.
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