 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 sidor
...first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to be neither Sicily nor Athens, but a moderate theatre. By supposition, as place is introduced, time...act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 sidor
...very remote from each other ; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...If, in the first Act, preparations for war against Mithridatcs are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 sidor
...places very remote from each other; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...so much of the action as is represented, the real vand poetical duration is the same. If, in the first act, preparations for war against Mithridates... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 sidor
...places very remote from each other; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...Act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 sidor
...places very remote from each other; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...Act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 sidor
...very remote from each other ; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 sidor
...very remote from each other ; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 sidor
...places very remote from each other; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...If, in the first act, preparations for war against Milhridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, •without absurdity, be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 sidor
...very remote from each other ; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 sidor
...places very remote from each other: and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens, and then Sicily, which was always known to...act, preparations for war against Mithridates are represented to be made in Rome, the event of the war may, without absurdity, be represented, in the... | |
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By supposition, as place is introduced, time may be extended ; the time required by the fable elapses for the most part between the acts ; for, of so much of the action as is represented, the real and poetical duration is the same. If in the first act... 
