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...imagine, and art hath taught, and all ancient examples justified. But, besides these gross ubsurdities, all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right...the clown by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion." From all which it is evident enough that very...

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...tired until the fool came on the stage again. Hence Sir Philip Sidney's censure on these dramatists, " how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings with clowns ; not because the matter so carrieth it, but to thrust in the clown, by head and shoulders,...

...no farther to be enlarged ; the dullest wit may conceive it. But, besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor...the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration,...

...tired until thefool came onthe stage again. Hence Sir Philip Sidney's censure on these dramatists, " how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings with clowns ; not because the matter so carrieth it, but to thrust in the clown, by head and shoulders,...

...tired until thefool came on the stage again. Hence Sir Philip Sidney's censure on these dramatists, " how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings with clowns; not because the matter so carrieth it, but to thrust in the clown, by head and shoulders,...

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...preference of the classic school over the romantic, by objecting, as Sir Philip Sidney objects, that "plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies mingling kings and clowns." There had been, according to Spenser, a state of the drama that would " Fill with pleasure The listeners'...