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The Supernatural in Tragedy (Hardcover)
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The Supernatural in Tragedy (Hardcover)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not
illustrated.1915 Excerpt: ... THE ELIZABETHAN AGE IN ENGLAND
Section I.--Seneca In England We have seen from our survey of the
medieval drama in England that it achieved a serious and
artistically satisfying method of dealing with the supernatural;
and furthermore, that the tradition thus established lasted until
newer forms of drama were definitely replacing the old, and was
never brusquely abandoned. In tracing the historical sequence of
our subject we are justified in leaving the moralities aside, since
by their very nature they lacked the possibility of attaining that
contrast necessary to the effective use of the supernatural. The
abstractions which take part in the moralities are all on the same
plane; and differentiation only leads to the accentuating of the
human characters, in other words toward comedy of manners.
Considering, then, the miracle-plays as the source of the native
method in the dramatic handling of the supernatural, we have to
note that such material as they afforded for treatment was of
essentially foreign origin, consisting as it did of the hierarchy
of supernatural figures which Christianity had introduced. The
method by which such figures are presented may fairly be called
native, in view of the contrast it offers to similar methods on the
Continent; but the figures themselves are not so. Yet outside the
strictly religious circle lay a great body of lore concerning the
supernatural which must have largely shaped popular conceptions in
such matters, and in time reacted on the drama itself. We cannot,
in the space here available, more than allude to these popular
traditions: but a word on their possible relations to the general
English attitude is in place. In the blending of races which
ultimately produced the England that is an individual nation, two
strains a...
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