Drayden 's Dramatic Poesy Task

Dryden's :'of dramatic poesy'





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Drayden 's Dramatic Poesy 'Task

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1) Do you any difference between Aristotle's definition of Tragedy and Dryden's definition of Play?
✴. Difference between the definition.

Aristotle's Defination of Tragedy:

“A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in appropriate and pleasurable language;... in a dramatic rather than narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish a catharsis of these emotions.” And he ended his defination with te word ‘Catharsis’.wereas Drayden gives the definition of the play in a wide per sense.
Dryden’s defination of. Play:
Just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.

According to the definition, drama is an ‘image’ of ‘human nature’, and the image is ‘just’ and ‘lively’. By using the word ‘just’ Dryden seems to imply that literature imitates (and not merely reproduces) human actions. For Dryden, ‘poetic imitation’ is different from an exact, servile copy of reality, for, the imitation is not only ‘just’, it is also ‘lively’.on that base we can see difference between Aristotle’s definition of tragedy and Dryden’s definition of play .

2) If you are supposed to give your personal predilection, would you be on the side of the Ancient or the Modern? Please give reasons.
✴ My personal prediction, is about an Ancient literature
in the case for the ‘Ancient’ is presented by crites .
in the controversy no extreme position and is sensible enough to give the ancient their respect .through his wit and
shrewd analysis, he removes the difficulty which had confused the issue. he makes us see the achievement of the Ancients and the gratitude of the Moderns to them . thus ,he
Present the comparative merits and demerits of each in clearer way
The superiority of Ancient is established by the very fact that the moderns simply imitate them, and build on the foundations laid by them .the Ancients are the acknowledge models of the modern .
it should be remembered that “Every age has its own genius ,its own inclination for some particular branch of knowledge .thus in the Modern age ,their genius is for the study of natural science as medicine ,anatomy ,astronomy ,and in these studies they have more progress than could be made during Aristotle to the modern similarity.”

3) Do you think that the arguments presented in favour of the French plays and against English plays are appropriate?   ✴ English plays are more  popular than French plays.         Because there is subplot  and  mingling mirth always  present in the  English  plays.In the play there is some  serious  emotion  and  another  plot  of  comic scene  is necessary.
   

     4) What would be your preference so far as poetic or prosaic dialogues are concerned in the play?
           ✴  According to me, in play both should be merge poetics and prosaic. Audience comes never in a single form and to maintain each individual’s test better to generalizing of all. If play goes on with one common pattern people will get bored easily.
poetic form is comparatively harder than prosaic in the sense of understanding. So prosaic dialogue is better than poetic dialogue



Defination of Drama