 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pagina’s
...(1692): and Voltaire. Appel a toutes les nations de /'Europe ( 1 76 1 ). a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and...dispositions; and wanting a buffoon, he went into the senate house for that which the senate house would certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to... | |
 | Jonathan Locke Hart - 1996 - 304 pagina’s
...his assigned place. in short. in the plot. Thus Shakespeare willingly flouts the Aristotelian muthas: 'His story requires Romans or kings. but he thinks only on men'" (27). Historically. challenges to the Aristotelian subordination of character to plot tended to be... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pagina’s
...professional criticism, would have made the plays better than they are: "Shakespeare has no heroes His story requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men" (pp. 64-65). Johnson is here renouncing a standard neo-classical formula for the creation of character.... | |
 | Joanna Gondris - 1998 - 428 pagina’s
...cites Johnson's observation on the dramatist's Beauties and Defects as character maker: 'Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident, and,...requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men ... A poet overlooks the casual distinctions of country and condition, as a painter, satisfied with... | |
 | John Ripley - 1998 - 444 pagina’s
...Dennis is offended that Menenius, a senator of Rome, should play the buffoon. . . . But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and,...story requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men.22 In a few brief sentences, Johnson shifted criticism from a conception of the play as an idealized... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 pagina’s
...completely royal" and that Menenius in Coriolanus is "not sufficiendy Roman"; Johnson answers: Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and...requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men. (65) Johnson's usage here of the Scholastic categories of essence and accident and his identification... | |
 | Charles Martindale, Michelle Martindale - 1994 - 246 pagina’s
...matter because Shakespeare also transcended his age by 'his adherence to general nature': 'Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and,...story requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men'.4 This appeal to 'Nature' is unlikely to satisfy a modern;8 such 'essentialism' is now regarded... | |
 | 1870 - 1472 pagina’s
...nature predominate over accident ; and if hc preserves the essential character, is not very carcful of distinctions superinduced and adventitious. His...requires Romans or Kings, but he thinks only on men. He kni'w tbat Rome, like every other city, had men of all dispositions; and wanting a buflfbon he went... | |
 | Allgemeiner deutscher neuphilologen-verband - 1912 - 306 pagina’s
...adventitions. His story reqnires Romans or kings, bnt he tbinks only on men. He knew that Home, like cvery other city, had men of all dispositions : and wanting a buffoon, he went into the Senate honse for that wbicli the Senate house woulcl certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to... | |
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Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and if he preserves the essential character, is not very careful of distinctions super-induced and adventitious. His story requires Romans or Kings, but he thinks only on men. 
