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" The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage... "
The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines ... - Page 314
by Francis Wrangham - 1816
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Common-sense and the Muses

David Graham - Aesthetics - 1925 - 380 pages
...reality. "It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited. . . . Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because...
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A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950: Volume 1, The Later Eighteenth Century

René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 378 pages
...unity of space with a recognition of the falsity of the usual neoclassical assumption of delusion. The objection arising from the impossibility of passing...really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes his walk to the theater has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra....
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A Literary History of England

Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...may be noted: (i) Johnson appeals to the imaginative basis of literature in attacking the unities: "The objection arising from the impossibility of passing...voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more." And the Doctor goes on to give...
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Literary Criticism: Pope to Croce

Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...false. It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or for a single moment...himself at Alexandria and believes that his walk to the theater has been a voyage to Egypt and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he...
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Neo-Classical Dramatic Criticism 1560-1770

Thora Burnley Jones, Bernard De Bear Nicol - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 200 pages
...place. 'It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment was ever credited.' Drama can only be credited, he says in a pregnant phrase, 'with all the credit due to drama'. Indeed,...
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The Shakespeare Revolution

J. L. Styan - Drama - 1983 - 308 pages
...self-contradiction: 'It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited,' and 'Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation.'18 Bethell set himself the task...
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Illusion and the Drama: Critical Theory of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era

Frederick Burwick - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 357 pages
...After having asserted that no "representation is mistaken for realiiy," that no "dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited," Johnson goes on to argue that credibility derives from the contemplation of the emotional effects:...
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The Theory and Analysis of Drama

Manfred Pfister - Drama - 1988 - 364 pages
...observing the unities of time and place arises from the supposed necessity of making the drama credible. The objection arising from the impossibility of passing...voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Cleopatra . . . The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses and know, from the first...
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William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, Volume 5

Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...truth: 'It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited' Johnson's position is given the appearance of weight by its absoluteness, in the words which I have...
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Shakespeare's Theory of Drama

Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...that '// is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited' (my emphasis)3. In our own century, semioticians have refuted the Coleridgean position. In The Semiotics...
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