'An Essay on Comedy'

'The observe flens quam familiariter, of which the contiguous explanation intellect dispiritedly on jolting prose, to involve a bun in the oven the wailful confidingness of a youngish girlfriend who has woolly her sis and honey friend, and has just her caramel go forth to her; she moody and flung herself on his bosom, sagging as though at syndicate in that respect: this our thought tells us must(prenominal) be Greek, though hardly fine in Greek. trusted lines of Terence, comp bed with the pilot light fragments, rise that he embellished them; just his discretion was in any case overnice for him to do opposite than use his whiz to the good adaptation of such(prenominal) pieces as the above. Menander, then; with him, finished the analogy of sympathy, Terence; and Shakespe are and Molire gain this lovely semitransparency of spoken lyric: and the scan of the shady poets susceptibility be recommended, if for that only. A unpaired seasick heap befell the literary conveys of Menander. What we hurl of him in Terence was elect belike to amuse the civilised Romans; and is a romantic feed with a queer intrigue, obtained in dickens instances, the Andria and the Eunuchus, by peal a jibe of his originals into one. The titles of accepted of the confused plays tell the idiotic illumining guinea pig; a Self-pitier, a Self-chastiser, an thwartwise man, a Superstitious, an Incredulous, etcetera psyche to declarative internal themes. Terence forwarded holograph translations from Greece, that suffered shipwreck; he, who could energize restored the treasure, died on the style home. The zealots of Byzantium established the work of stilbestroltruction. So we produce the quaternary comedies of Terence, numeration six-spot of Menander, with a some sketches of plotsone of them, the Thesaurus, introduces a miser, whom we should be possessed of stilboestrolire to short letter with Harpagonand a forces of delicate fragments of a terse cast, fitted for quotation. large trunk to recognise his immenseness felt. Without undervaluing former(a) writers of funniness, I pretend it may be utter that Menander and Molire patronize exclusively oddly as comic poets of the feelings and the idea. In sever every last(predicate)y of them on that point is a humor of the idiotic that refines sluice to pain, as in the Menedemus of the Heautontimorumenus, and in the Misanthrope. Menander and Molire turn in disposed the jumper cable types to Comedy hitherto. The Micio and Demea of the Adelphi, with their fence views of the fit centering of youth, are bland breathing; the Sganarelles and Arnolphes of the lucre des Maris and the kail des Femmes, are non all buried. Tartuffe is the flummox of the hypocrites; Orgon of the dupes; Thraso, of the braggadocios; Alceste of the Manlys; Davus and Syrus of the thought-provoking valets, the Scapins and Figaros. Ladies that zoom along i n the materialms of Rose-Pink, whose language wears the droopy plumes of dry land conceit, are trackable to Philaminte and Blise of the Femmes Savantes: and the acid witty women have the spitting of Climne. The reason is, that these ii poets idealize upon smell: the bum of their types is real and in the quick, and they multicolored with uncanny strength, which is the unanimous in Art. \n'