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Excerpt from The Use of Comic Episodes in Tragedy
So when our Elizabethan dramatists entered the field they had little care of paths or signposts. The Moralities were still going on with their licensed alternations of solemnity and laughter; spectacular dramas found their analogy in the pageants and public shows; the University plays brought a certain modish wit into prominence the Chronicle histories threw all the unities to the winds and ranged at will over an entire reign and an entire kingdom. The playwrights had, as a rule, no theories about their art; they were far too fully occupied in being artists: the critics, even when Sidney was of their number, had little in?uence in an age of almost universal controversy. Our poets adventured into the Drama as our sailors adventured into the Spanish Main: at no time in the history of any art was prescription of less account or a man more free to deal with his own subject in his own way.
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