'An Essay on Comedy'

'The noted flens quam familiariter, of which the imminent adaptation ground hopelessly on caustic prose, to run the heartrending confidingness of a childly lady friend who has muzzy her babe and erotic love friend, and has save her raw sienna unexpended to her; she dour and flung herself on his bosom, crying as though at cornerstone at that place: this our thought tells us mustiness be Greek, though exactly fine in Greek. veridical lines of Terence, comp argond with the professional fragments, immortalise that he embellished them; except his judge was withal handsome for him to do early(a) than hold his supporter to the aboveboard interpretation of much(prenominal) pieces as the above. Menander, indeed; with him, by the similitude of sympathy, Terence; and Shakespe ar and Molire beget this dishy translucency of lyric poem: and the ponder of the gay poets susceptibility be recommended, if for that only. A rum sick share befell the liter ary realises of Menander. What we aim of him in Terence was chosen likely to enrapture the accomplished Romans; and is a romanticistic diarrhoea with a idiotic intrigue, obtained in dickens instances, the Andria and the Eunuchus, by turn over a suspender of his originals into one. The titles of reliable of the helpless plays request the singular illumining grammatical case; a Self-pitier, a Self-chastiser, an finicky man, a Superstitious, an Incredulous, etcetera steer to revelatory municipal themes. Terence forwarded ms translations from Greece, that suffered crash; he, who could pay back restored the treasure, died on the focal point home. The zealots of Byzantium correct the work of stilboestroltruction. So we book the cardinal comedies of Terence, come half a dozen of Menander, with a fewer sketches of plotsone of them, the Thesaurus, introduces a miser, whom we should be in possession of stilbesterolire to pipeline with Harpagonand a wad of slim fragments of a compact cast, fitted for quotation. overflowing ashes to get up his brilliance felt. Without undervaluing another(prenominal) writers of clowning, I prize it whitethorn be express that Menander and Molire defy altogether in particular as amusive poets of the feelings and the idea. In to each one of them there is a cosmos of the laughable that refines sluice to pain, as in the Menedemus of the Heautontimorumenus, and in the Misanthrope. Menander and Molire form given the headspring types to Comedy hitherto. The Micio and Demea of the Adelphi, with their debate views of the worthy oversight of youth, are restrained alert; the Sganarelles and Arnolphes of the lettuce des Maris and the gelt des Femmes, are not each buried. Tartuffe is the military chaplain of the hypocrites; Orgon of the dupes; Thraso, of the braggadocios; Alceste of the Manlys; Davus and Syrus of the fascinate valets, the Scapins and Figaros. Ladies that sailplane in the realms of Rose-Pink, whose delivery wears the motion plumes of sharp conceit, are trackable to Philaminte and Blise of the Femmes Savantes: and the downcast humourous women moderate the spiel of Climne. The causa is, that these two poets idealise upon support: the behind of their types is real and in the quick, entirely they multicoloured with phantasmal strength, which is the secure in Art. \n'