Author : Robert Vaughan
Release : 2017-12-26
Genre : Literary Collections
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The British Quarterly Review, Vol. 59 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Quarterly Review, Vol. 59 write by Robert Vaughan. This book was released on 2017-12-26. The British Quarterly Review, Vol. 59 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from The British Quarterly Review, Vol. 59: January and April, 1874 These views are strikingly corroborated by the evidence of language. In the fourteenth century the terms tragedy and comedy were by no means confined to dramatic poems, but were freely applied to metrical narratives. Dante's comedies were in no sense dramas. With Chaucer (see the prologue to the Monk's Tale a tragedy is simply a tragic story; and Lydgate characterizes Chaucer's own poems as comedies and tragedies. But still further, we have it, on the authority of Professor Max M tiller, that the name mister-y (improperly written mystery), by which these religious plays are known, has no reference to anything mysterious or mystical in their subject. Mistery, minstrelsy, and ministry are, in point of fact, radically identical; and their different applications in modern times merely show how widely derivatives from the same root may diverge in meaning in the course of ages. All point to the idea of ser vice and in truth a minister is but a sacred minstrel; a minstrel is only a secular minis. Ter. But it was not only in its earliest stage that this ballad character belonged to the miracle, or religious play. Even when its dramatic form was fully developed, it was still customary to represent a great part of its action by dumb show, and -in tableaux vi vants, while the story itself was recited by a single actor or by two or three of the chief characters, whose function brings us back once more to that of the old ballad minstrel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.