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A58022	A short view of tragedy it's original, excellency and corruption : with some reflections on Shakespear and other practitioners for the stage / by Mr. Rymer ...	Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713.	1693 (1693)	Wing R2429; ESTC R17017	76,381	200

A Short View OF TRAGEDY It 's Original Excellency and Corruption WITH SOME Reflections on Shakespear and other Practitioners for the STAGE By Mr. Rymer Servant to their Majesties Hodieque manent vestigia ruris Hor. LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane and at the Black Lyon in Fleetstreet between the two Temple-Gates 1693. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Charles Earl of Dorset and Middlesex Baron Buckhurst and L d. Chamberlain of their Majesties Houshold Kt. of the Most Noble Order of the Garter Lord Lieutenant of Sussex and one of their Majesties most Honourable Privy Council My Lord COntemplation and Action have their different Seasons It was after the defeat of Antony and the business of the World pretty well o●…er when Virgil and Horace came to be so distinguish'd at Court Alexander who had given so good proof of his Judgment by the Honours paid to the Memory of Homer and of P●…dar found in his time no better Poet than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the great Alexander was for Laureate and Historiographer When once again the business of the World is over Now my Lord that the Muses Commonweal is become your Province what may we not expect This I say not with intent to apply that of Quintilian on Augustus Cae●…ar Parum Diis visum est esse eum Maxim●…m Poetarum that were a Common Topick But because when some years ago I tryed the Publick with Observations concerning the Stage It was principally your Countenance that buoy'd me up and supported a Righteous Cause against the Prejudice and Corruption then reigning I would not raise up again the Spirit of the late Prince of Conti His Traite contre la Comedie has by others been termed la defense de la vertu My zeal goes no higher than the Doctrine of Horace and Aristotle and the Primitive Fathers of Dramatick Poet●…y If that Purity may be Allow'd under a Christian Dispensation The World surely other Matters apart owes much to Cardinal Richelieu for his Encouragement to the Belles Lettres From thence we may reckon that we begin to understand the Epick Poem by the means of Bossu and Tragedy by Monsieur D●…cier The World is not agreed which is the Nobler Poem Pla●…o and Bossu prefer the former Aristotle and Dacier declare for Tragedy Three indeed o●… the Epick the two by Homer and Virgil's Aeneids are reckon'd in the degree of Perfection But amongst the Tragedies only the Oedipus of Sophocles That by Corneille and by others of a Modern Cut quantum Muta●…us but I already trespass too long upon your time who am My Lord Your ever Bounden Faithful Humble Servant THE Contents Chap. I. THe Chorus ke●…ps the Poet ●…o Rules A show to ●…e Spectators Two S●…nses to be pleased The Eye by ●…he Show and by the Action Pl●…ys Acted without words Words often better out of the way Instances in Shakespear Ben Johnson and Seneca Noted To the Ear Pronunciation is all in all The Story of Demosthenes Mistakes in Judging T●… sorts of Judges At Athens ●… Third sort Judges upon Oath In France Judges divided about the Cid Cardinal Richelieu against the Majority At the Thomas Morus weeping unawares Horace Angry with Shows The French Opera inconsistent with Nature and Good sense Burlesk Verse At Paris Christ's Passion in Burlesk A Tragedy of Aeschylus The defeat of Xerxes The Subject and Oeconomy How imitated for our English Stage King John of France Francis 1. Prisoners The Spanish Armado in 88. An imitation recommended to Mr. Dreyden Chap. 2. Tragedy before Thespis A Religious Worship Musick and Dance follow the Chorus Governments c●…re of the Stage as of Religion No Private Person to build a Chappel Toung Men not to present Plays Didascalia and Tragedy-doctors Difficulty Publick Revenue for Plays Theatre-money sacred End of Poetry What effect by Aeschylus Of his Persians Schools for Boys Stage for Men. Character of Aristophanes Opinion of the Persian Ambassador The State takes aim from him Spares not his Master the People Democratical Corruption His Address unimit able Comedy after him dwindles Somewhat like him amongst the Moderns Rehearsal Alchymist Vertuoso Rabilais End of Poetry with the Romans Tragedies by their Great Men. All Translation Numa Pompilius Old Romans aversion to Poetry 12 Tables Stage-Plays to remove the Plague Never improv'd by them The use hardly known Far short of the Greeks Horace and Virgil. Their Conduct Terence's Complaint Want●…d Show And Action Athens the Soil for Dramatick Poetry A forreign Plant with the Romans They for the Eye pleas'd more with the outside Their Theatres co●…siderable not the Tragedies Horace's Reason Chap. 3. The first Christians cry against Idols Stage-Plays Pagan Worship Apostolical Constitutions Greek and Latin Fathers Tertullian's Conceipt Counsels against Heathen Learning Greek Wisdom St. Hi●…rom St. Austin their Sin of Heathen Books A Canon that no Bishop read an Heathen Book ●…ulians Project The Christians Co●…ntermine A Christian Homer Pindar and Euripides Stage-Plays particularly levell'd at The same heat at this day in the Spanish Jesuits Pedro de Guzman against Stage-Plays and Bull-feasts The Name of Poet a Bugbear at the Reformation The Heresie charged on Sing-Songs and Stage-plays Marot's Psalms How in vog●…e at the French-Court Reasons against Stage-plays Lactantius The same 2000 years ago by Plato Tragedy Homer Aeschylu●… Objections by Aristophanes Chap. 4. Aristotl●…'s 〈◊〉 Answer evasive Plato a better Divine Not better than our Modern God may use ill instruments The false Dream Th●… two Barr●…ls Fables before Hom●…r H●… of God sensibly Plato Cant. Meta●…hore the utmost we are capable of Fables Allegory Celsus to Origen against the Bible All●…gory a cure for all Homer's Fables from the Bible The false Dream from the Story of Achab improv'd by Homer Averroes of Arabian Poets Apollo Loxias Particular sentences Texts of Scripture Juno Job's Wife SS in V●…lgar Tongu●… Euripides ill Women No blam●… to the art Pomp of the Theatre What ill names by ●…esuits Chap. 5. Of Poetry in Italy Aristotle's Works Tramontains Cardinal Bibiena Tragedy there with Chorus Strolers Christ's Passion Of Poetry in France Clem. Marot Strolers there Proceedings at Law against them Report of their Case Their Old Testament Acts of the Apostles and Christ's Passion Banisht from France Comedy there Tragedy by Hardy Corneille Richilieu Acad●…my Royal. The Theatre Caution that no Equivoque nor ought against good Manners More nice than the Pulpit Their Gall●…ntry Verse Language unfit for Tragedy Dramatick representations banish'd from Spain Nurse of Heresie Father Guzman Escobar Of Poetry in England British Saxon Norman Latin and Provencial Poetry there Richard Ceur de Lion a Provencial Poet. O●…r Monks and History false on that account The Gay Science That and the Albigenses Contemporary and from the same Countr●…y King Kichard's Fellow-Poets Jef●…ry Rudel and Countess of Tripoly Chap. 6. Savery de Mauleon a Provencial Poet Testimony of him King R. I. His Verses when Prisoner in Austria