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" Fables are of two sorts, simple and complicated; for so also are the actions themselves of which they are imitations. An action (having the continuity and unity prescribed) I call simple, when its catastrophe is produced without either revolution or discovery;... "
Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the Translation ... - Page 130
by Aristotle, Thomas Twining - 1812
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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the ..., Volume 1

Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 380 pages
...catastrophe is produced without _either_m;olution^orjliscovery : complicated, when with one, oYjbolh. And these should arise from the structure of the fable...preceded in the action. For there is a wide difference difference between incidents that follow from, and incidents that follow only after, each other. IX....
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Theatre of the Greeks ... information relative to the rise, progress, and ...

Greeks - 1827 - 1206 pages
...ft-ift-jiv oi ptv atfXoT, oi Sz ifnr>.ry[j,£voi) ; for so also are the actions themselves of which they are imitations. An action (having the continuity...either revolution or discovery; complicated, when rvilh one, or both. And these should arise from the structure of the fable itself, so as to be the...
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The Theatre of the Greeks: Or, The History, Literature, and Criticism of the ...

Philip Wentworth Buckham - Greek drama - 1830 - 628 pages
...nèv ¿тг\о1, o'i ¿e тгетгЛе'у/uévoi) ; for so also are the actions themselves of which they are imitations. An action (having the continuity and unity prescribed) I call simple, when •may be probable." But he will recollect what sort of events, and what sort of probability Aristotle...
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The Theatre of the Greeks: A Series of Papers Relating to the History and ...

John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1836 - 636 pages
...HUOwv o't nfv атгХо!, oí ce TreirXeyfíévot) ; for so also are the actions themselves of which they are imitations. An action (having the continuity...there is a wide difference between incidents that follow from, and incidents that follow only after, each other. A revolution (тгерпгетею),...
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The Grecian Drama: A Treatise on the Dramatic Literature of the Greeks

John Richard Darley (Bp. of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh) - Greek drama - 1840 - 580 pages
...of accident. It follows, then, that such fables as are formed on these principles must be the best. revolution or discovery ; complicated, when with one,...should arise from the structure of the fable itself, BO as to be the natural consequences, necessary or probable, of what has preceded in the action. For...
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The Theatre of the Greeks: A Series of Papers Relating to the History and ...

John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1849 - 642 pages
...fiíilli,!!' ol fttv отгХоТ, oí St TrfTrXf-y/uvo«) : for so also are the action* themselves of which they are imitations. An action (having the continuity...both. And these should arise from the structure of the plot itself, so as to be the natural consequences, necessary or probable, of what has preceded in the...
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The Athenian Stage: A Handbook for Students

August Witzchel - Greek drama - 1850 - 172 pages
...events) " are of two sorts, simple and complicated ; for so also are the actions themselves of which they are imitations. An action, having the continuity...necessary or probable, of what has preceded in the action A revolution (ireptirtTtia) is a change into the reverse of what is expected from the circumstances...
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The Poetics of Aristotle, tr. by Twining [ed. by H. Hamilton].

Aristotle - 1851 - 90 pages
...are therefore in thfr nature of digressions. plicated ; for so are the actions themselves of which they are imitations. An action (having the continuity and unity prescribed) I call (a) simple, when its catastrophe is produced without either revolution, or discovery ; complicated,...
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Theatre of the Greeks ... information relative to the rise, progress, and ...

Greeks - 1860 - 904 pages
...cuuijiücat- P*v атгАоГ, oí 8t ireirA.í-y/xéi'oi) : for so also are the actions themselves of which they are imitations. An action (having the continuity...both. And these should arise from the structure of the plot itself, so as to be the natural consequences, necessary or probable, of what has preceded in the...
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Criticisms on Paradise Lost

Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 pages
...Fables are of two sorts — simple and complicated ; for so also are the actions themselves of which they are imitations. An action (having the continuity...there is a wide difference between incidents that follow from and incidents that follow only after each other." 34 11. According to Morley, Addison's...
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