 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...we set forth a story, which containeth both many places and many times ? And do they not know that a tragedy is tied to the laws of Poesy, and not of History;...conveniency? Again, many things may be told which cannot be showed, if they know the difference betwixt reporting and representing. As, for example, I may speak... | |
 | Viviana Comensoli, Anne Russell - English drama - 1999 - 284 pages
...we set forth a story which contametri both many places and many times? And do they not know that a tragedy is tied to the laws of Poesy, and not of History;...matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical convenience? Again, many things may be told which cannot be showed, if they know the difference betwixt... | |
 | Philip Sidney - English poetry - 2002 - 182 pages
...shall we set forth a story which contains both many places and many times? And do they not know that a tragedy is tied to the laws of Poesy, and not of History;...conveniency? Again, many things may be told which cannot be showed, if they know the difference betwixt reporting and representing. As, for example, I may speak... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - Philosophy - 2002 - 562 pages
...Shakespeare's beginnings, Sir Philip Sidney had already more than glimpsed this instrumental potency: And do they not know that tragedy is tied to the laws...frame the history to the most tragical conveniency? (Defence, 66) Like all poetry, tragedy made its own imagined realities, just as it also turned history... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 286 pages
...Philocrates goes away and Philopolemus comes back from Aulis to Aetolia in a very short time'. 21- 2 tragedy is tied to the laws of Poesy, and not of History] Compare Spenser's Letter to Raleigh on The Faerie Queenc. 'For the Methode of a Poet historical is... | |
 | Alastair Fowler - Art - 2003 - 314 pages
...in time, giving a more summary or compressed account of other, subsidiary maretial. And drama, too, 'is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history;...not bound to follow the story, but having liberty', as Sidney puts ir, to frame the history to the most tragical conveniency. Again, many things may be... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 482 pages
...we set forth a story which contains both many places and many times ': And do they not know, that a tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history...matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical convenience ': Again, many things may be told, which cannot be showed ; if they know the difference... | |
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And do they not know that a tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history; not bound to follow the story, but having liberty either to feign a quite new matter, or to frame the history to the most tragical conveniency ? Again, many things may... 
