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Page 154
... comic and the grotesque . The comic , he says , is an imitation mixed with a certain creative faculty ; the grotesque is a creation mixed with a certain imitative fac- ulty - imitative of elements found in nature . Each gives rise to ...
... comic and the grotesque . The comic , he says , is an imitation mixed with a certain creative faculty ; the grotesque is a creation mixed with a certain imitative fac- ulty - imitative of elements found in nature . Each gives rise to ...
Page 157
... comic stage for over a century to come . Censor- ship The comic outside the theatre . The great comic voices of the 18th century in England were not those in the theatre . No dramatic satire of the period can exhibit any- thing ...
... comic stage for over a century to come . Censor- ship The comic outside the theatre . The great comic voices of the 18th century in England were not those in the theatre . No dramatic satire of the period can exhibit any- thing ...
Page 159
... comic stage by means of some predominant humour , which Ben Jonson was developing at about the same time in the London theatre . The use of exaggeration for comic effect was as evident to painters as it was to dramatists . Its ...
... comic stage by means of some predominant humour , which Ben Jonson was developing at about the same time in the London theatre . The use of exaggeration for comic effect was as evident to painters as it was to dramatists . Its ...
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