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J. TEMPLEMAN, 248, REGENT STREET;
J. R. SMITH, 4, OLD COMPTON STREET, SOHO.
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340.
CONTENTS TO VOL. II.
LECTURE X.-(Continued.)
French tragic theatre.
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LECTURE XI.
French comedy.- Molière.-Criticism of his works.-Scarron,
Boursault, Regnard; Comedies in the time of the Regency;
Marivaux and Destouches; Piron and Gresset.-Later at-
tempts.-The heroic opera.-Quinault.-Operettes and Vau-
devilles. Diderot's attempted change of the theatre.-The
weeping drama.-Beamarchais.-Melo-dramas.-Merits and
defects of the histrionic art.
LECTURE XII.
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Comparison of the English and Spanish theatres.-Spirit of the
romantic drama. - Shakspeare.-His age and the circum-
stances of his life.-How far costume is necessary, or may be
dispensed with.-Shakspeare the greatest drawer of characters.
-Vindication of the genuineness of his pathos.- Play on
words.-Moral delicacy.-Irony.-Mixture of the tragic and
comic. The part of the Fool or Clown.-Shakspeare's lan-
guage and versification.-Account of his several works: co-
medies, tragedies, and historical dramas.-Appendix on the
pieces of Shakspeare said to be spurious.
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