William Davenant | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 21 pages of analysis & critique of William Davenant.

William Davenant | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 21 pages of analysis & critique of William Davenant.
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SOURCE: Child, C. G. “The Rise of the Heroic Play.” Modern Language Notes 19, no. 6 (June 1904): 166-73.

In this essay, Child emphasizes William Davenant's role in the development of heroic drama.

Holzhausen, in his sketch of the rise and development of the heroic play (Englische Studien, 13. 416 n.), says, with reference to Ohlsen's Dryden as a Dramatist and Critic (Altona progr., no. 263, 1883),

Ueber dies passiren ihm allerhand seltsame schnitzer. So nennt er aus s. IV kurzweg Davenant als denjenigen, welcher die heroic plays in England eingeführt habe, was, wenn auch nicht ganz falsch, so doch entschieden schief ist. Denn Davenant's thätigkeit … hat allerdings der neuen gattung in England verschiedenen ingredienzien zugeführt; der eigentliche begründer des heroischen dramas in England ist dagegen Lord Orrery gewesen.

Later (ib. 422), after instancing the French romances, classical French tragedy, the Italian epic, the taste of the Court, and the taste for...

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