Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

Whether the Middle Comedy was a distinct species Origin of the New Comedy A mixed species Its prosaic character Whether versification is essential to Comedy Subordinate kinds Pieces of Character, and of Intrigue The Comic of observation, of self consciousness, and arbitrary Comic Morality of Comedy. LECTURE XIV. Plautus and Terence as Imitators of the Greeks, here examined and characterized in the absence of the Originals they copied Motives of the Athenian Comedy from Manners and Society Portrait Statues of two Comedians. LECTURE XV. Roman Theatre Native kinds: Atellane Fables, Mimes, Comoedia Togata Greek Tragedy transplanted to Rome Tragic Authors of a former Epoch, and of the Augustan Age Idea of a National Roman Tragedy Causes of the want of success of the Romans in Tragedy Seneca.