 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 196 pages
...simply a failure. Dr. Johnson, in his edition (1765), found the play's complex dramaturgy too much: To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...evident for detection and too gross for aggravation. Modern critics have often resorted to the word "experimental" to describe the remarkable assemblage... | |
 | Catherine Burroughs - 2000 - 366 pages
...fancy. She quotes at length Johnson's scathing conclusion to his remarks on this play, which ends: To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. "How would a modern author writhe," remarks Inchbald, "under a critique that should accuse his drama,... | |
 | 1984 - 476 pages
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 | Stanley Wells - 2003 - 494 pages
...absurd and ridiculous to the last degree'. Johnson was to write with similar contempt of the same play: 'To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.' So much for Cymbeline. Johnson inordinately admired Mrs Lennox, and it would be interesting to know... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 232 pages
...to be charitable with Cymbeline and then gives up. ' To remark the folly of the fiction', he says, 'the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the...faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.'28 We watch him do the predictable, let fly with one of his favourite indignations, when... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...Coker," V. 272 "aristocrat of middlebrows, Dr. Johnson.": Johnson wrote of Cymbeline, for example: 'To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecillity, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." See Johnson on... | |
 | Judith Woolf - 2005 - 192 pages
...Shakespeare's plays during the Age of Reason, sums up in one tremendous sentence the irrationality of its plot: To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. M Shakespeare never invented story material if he could borrow it, and in Cymbeline he borrowed from... | |
 | Judith Woolf - 2005 - 188 pages
...Shakespeare's plays during the Age of Reason, sums up in one tremendous sentence the irrationality of its plot: To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.14 Shakespeare never invented story material if he could borrow it, and in Cymbeline he... | |
 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 412 pages
...judgements, for example that on Cymbeline: This play has many just sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the...of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecillity, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. (Johnson 1986, p.... | |
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To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too... 
