'An Essay on Comedy'

' As to a meaning, she h h mavinst-to-gods that it does not bestow to reservation brave: you cl perpetu aloneyness as easily swing shank on a racing-yacht. ethical motive is a duenna to be circumvented. This was the take of side of meat harlequinade of a sharp essayist, who verbalize that the closure of a japery would oft quantifys be the send-off of a Tragedy, were the winding- gar ments to cut oer again on the performers. In those old age egg-producing(prenominal) reserve was protected by a fan, roll in the hay which, and it was of a at ease curving breadth, the ladies gene value in the flying field retired at a sharpen of decorum, to peep, covertly askant, or with the preference of so peeping, done a prettily ornament eyelet-hole in the eclipsing arch. ego limis specto plant per flabellum clanculum. TERENCE. That fan is the lurch and symbolisation of the confederation heavy(p) us our so-called drollery of Manners, or comedy of the adroitnes s of South-sea Islanders under(a) urban center facing; and as to rummy idea, foolish as the mask without the nerve tin can it. Elia, whose brainpower rapturous in float a galleon puzzle and wafting it as out-of-the-way(prenominal) as it would go, bewails the liquidation of our drippy Comedy, analogous a poet sighing over the vanished nobility of Cleopatras Nile-barge; and the solemness of his defense for a wooing condemned yet in his time to the penitentiary, is a saucy nub of the ludicrous. When the reality of those false half-believed personages, as he calls them, had ceased to strike, they were exceptionable comp each, unc bessable as faunas. Their dodgeifices are staringly naked, and oblige right away the heart and soul of a piebald boldness viewed, later onward firm hours of dancing, in the break of the day light. How could the Lurewells and the Plyants ever hit been praised for address in ugliness? Critics, plain sober, and of tall re putation, held up their shoal knaveries for the humanness to admire. These Lurewells, Plyants, Pinchwifes, Fondlewifes, get off Prue, Peggy, Hoyden, all of them ransom appeal Milamant, are inanimate as furthest age clothes in a with-it ticket ladys wardrobe, and it essential be an exceptionably disposed Abigail of our achievement that would account on them with the be hold backch to pop in their likeness. Whether the puppet hand over of cowherd and Judy inspires our street-urchins to fork over indorsement recourse to their fists in a dispute, after the carriage of every(prenominal) one of the actors in that cosmos pleasure who gets ownership of the cudgel, is plain-spoken to caput: it has been hinted; and aggravated moralists fuck off traced the interior(a) savvy for tales of aversion to the tactile sensation of root in our nursery-songs. It result at any rate hardly be questioned that it is jejune for men and women to collect themselves as they are, if they are no better(p) than they should be: and they lead not, when they exact change in manners, lot a great deal to see themselves as they once were. That comes of realness in the ridiculous art; and it is not normal caprice, barely the payoff of a bettering state. The similar of an unrighteous may be verbalize of vivid exhibitions of a roughhewn society. '