...the dullest wit may conceive it. But besides these gross absurdities, how all their [modern writers'] plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies,...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...

...to be enlarged; the dullest wit may conceive it. But besides these gross absurdities, how all theit plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies,...not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in clowns by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion,...

...to criticize contemporary English dramatists for their violations of decorum and mixing of genres: "all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right...and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it ... so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel...

...(1583) ne dia, sia pur in negativo, la prima definizione inglese: But beside these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor...the matter so carrieth it but thrust in the clown by the head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion; so...

...cannot be hurtful." On the other, Sidney treats tragi-comedy as one of the defects of English drama: "mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter...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,...

...manners as will detract from the appropriate effect of tragedy. 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,...

...of those moralists who attacked comedy and song simultaneously. He was convinced, nevertheless, that 'plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies; mingling kings and clowns'. Who would 'make a clown companion with a king' and 'in their grave counsels . . . allow the advice...

...evident in the term he coins to name it: 'mongrel tragi-comedy'. But besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor...not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in clowns by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion,...

...Sidney is so hostile to what he actually sees on the English stage. 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,...

...Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence, p. 12. 51. Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry, ed. van Dorsten, p. 67: 'all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns ... so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel...