 | Sue Jennings - Medical - 1997 - 372 pages
...notably those of time and place: To the unities of time and place he has shown no regard; and perhaps a nearer view of the principles on which they stand...trouble to the poet than pleasure to the auditor. (Johnson 1969, p. 69) Johnson then restates the argument in favour of the unities, in terms not markedly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 448 pages
...play is the end of expectation. ' To the Unities of Time and Place he has shown no regard, and perhaps a nearer view of the principles on which they stand...trouble to the poet than pleasure to the auditor. ' The necessity of observing the Unities of Time and Place arises from the supposed necessity of making... | |
 | G. M. Pinciss - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 214 pages
...judgment must be based on the effect achieved, and the unities of time and place, as Johnson noted, "have given more trouble to the poet than pleasure to the auditor" or spectator.5 Once again, in the case of Shakespeare, the desire for variety, range, and innovation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 380 pages
...play is the end of expectation. To the unities of time and place he has shown no regard, and perhaps a nearer view of the principles on which they stand...trouble to the poet, than pleasure to the auditor. The necessity of observing the unities of time and place arises from the supposed necessity of making... | |
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Corneille, they have very generally received, by discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet, than pleasure to the auditor. The necessity of observing the unities of time and place arises from the supposed necessity of making the drama credible. 
