Nicholas Rowe's Fair Penitent

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Excerpt from Nicholas Rowe's Fair Penitent: A Contribution to Literary Analysis, With a Side-Reference to Richard Beer-Hofmann's Graf Von Charolais, A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Berne in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of PhilosophyThe first rule which Bossu prescribes to the writer of an heroic poem, and which holds too by the same reason in all dramatic poetry, is to make the moral of the work, that is, to lay down to yourself what that precept of morality shall be, which you would insinuate into the people It is the moral that directs the whole action of the play to one centre, and that action or fable is the example built upon the moral, which confirms the truth of it to our experience.1 This essay dates from 1679 and forms part of the preface to the tragedy of Troilus and Cressida.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.