Shakspeare's Dramatic Art, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Shakspeare's Dramatic Art, Vol. 1: History and Character of Shakspeare's PlaysAccordingly, in the critical examination of Shakspeare's dramas, I have directed my attention more especially to the determination of the form, the construction of every drama as one independent whole, i.a., to the connection of the several parts, and to the unity which binds and holds them all together not only the action and the movements of its development, but also the characters, relations, and conditions of the dramatic personages, the diction and versification, scenery, and mode of repre sentation. For this unity - which, though in itself internal, is revealed to the aesthetic eye in the formation and composition of the whole is the condition of all harmony, and thus of all beauty, and again of the work of art as a work of art. This inner unity I call the idea not of the artist, but of his work, because, I think that, in the first place, it belongs to his work and - if it is to be a work of art - must belong to it, even allowing that the artist may not have been conscious of it when sketch in g or working out his drama. But I think that the idea 1nust-even though but half consciously - have ¿oated before the poet's mind as an undefined something, or merely instinctively as the impulse of his aiming at the beautiful, his pleasure and love for the beautiful, his sense of beauty, and must therefore have been the guiding rule of his artistic activity. A ruling, guiding thought, such as this, which is the condition of the development of the subject-matter into a work of art, is called in aesthetics by the name of idea.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.