Excerpt from The Iberian: Anglo-Greek Play We have followed the ancient drama in the uni ties of time, place and theme, and have also te stricted our plot to the utmost simplicity, employ ing the least number of characters possible to de velop it; the Chorus and semi-chorus we have made to appear upon the scene as was the Roman custom. These beautiful lyrical characters lent a charm to the ancient drama which has ever been lacking in that of our modern school. However, we have willingly followed the latter in some ...
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Excerpt from The Iberian: Anglo-Greek Play We have followed the ancient drama in the uni ties of time, place and theme, and have also te stricted our plot to the utmost simplicity, employ ing the least number of characters possible to de velop it; the Chorus and semi-chorus we have made to appear upon the scene as was the Roman custom. These beautiful lyrical characters lent a charm to the ancient drama which has ever been lacking in that of our modern school. However, we have willingly followed the latter in some essential details, believing that by so doing we should attain a most pleasing and artistic combination. It is scarcely necessary to call attention to the different forms of verse employed. All students of Shakespeare recognize, as he did, the necessity of variety, which when not carried to excess affords a certain pleasure. An additional zest is added in reading a play, for one must then build in imagination the character, passions and emotions of each personage from their dialogues; this will give a sat isfaction to the intelligent reader which the narra tive form of writing cannot do, for that is based on the theory that the writer has all the imagination, and the reader little or none at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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