Excerpt from Common Conditions It is easy to question the logic of the poet, but he can hardly be denied credit for much subtlety, when one realizes that the inconsistencies in the a�tion, for which he seeks to account metaphorically, are not of his own making, but a necessary incident of dramatic progress. The pivot upon which the whole a�tion of the piece turns, Common Conditions, the Vice, is a remarkably conspicuous agglomeration ofjhree very different roles. In the capacity he derives from the old moral drama it ...
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Excerpt from Common Conditions It is easy to question the logic of the poet, but he can hardly be denied credit for much subtlety, when one realizes that the inconsistencies in the a�tion, for which he seeks to account metaphorically, are not of his own making, but a necessary incident of dramatic progress. The pivot upon which the whole a�tion of the piece turns, Common Conditions, the Vice, is a remarkably conspicuous agglomeration ofjhree very different roles. In the capacity he derives from the old moral drama it is his fun�tion to amuse, tempt, and mislead frail mankind; in the capacity of Latin parasite, which he repeatedly claims for himself, he must be the incarnation of cowardly and deceitful self-interest; while in his newer and more vital chara�ter of clown or fool, he must show himself the indomitably humorous and ingenious guide, philosopher, and friend to those he serves. The new and the old demands could not be made to jibe: hence the notable havoc wrought by the Ambidexters and Subtle Shifts of the period upon the structure of the plays in which they figure. In no other transitional interlude is there so frank an illustration 0 the general difficulties of the dramatic situation or so original an effort at palliating an incongruity which the author evidently realized, but which no writer of this type of drama could wholly remove. For those who follow the perplexed history of Vice and Fool, Common Conditions must remain a peculiarly interesting document, no less than for those who seek to make Clear the steps by which English drama mounted to its highest Elizabethan fun�tion, its place of expositor of heroic and romantic story. 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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