...Defense, p. 28 : '. . . Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he represented in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may...that any beholder can be content to be such a one .... the sack of his own faults lie so behinde his back, that he seeth not himself to dance the same...

...roofs are builded '. So, too, the work of the comic poet is ' an imitation of the common errors of our life which he representeth in the most ridiculous...that any beholder can be content to be such a one '. The Defence was not published until 1595, but it must have been well known in private before that,...

...imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth, in the most ridiculous and scornefull sort that may be. So as it is impossible, that any beholder can be content to be such a one. ... So that the right vse of Comedy will (I thinke) by no body be blamed, and much lesse of the high...

...imitatid,of the comon errors of our life, which he representeth in the "most ridiculous & scornfull sort that may be : so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one. Now as in Geometrie, the oblique must be knowne as well as the right, and in Arithmetic^, the odde...

...after. Only thus much now is to be said, that the comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous...that any beholder can be content to be such a one. Now, as in Geometry the oblique must be known as well as the right, and in Arithmetic the odd as well...

...imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornefull sort that may be; so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one" (op. cit., I, pp. 176-177). 39As Berdan says, the humanists "are nothing if not moral" (op. cit., p....

...notably dull to one used to Rome, for instance). comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous...that any beholder can be content to be such a one. Now as in geometry the oblique must be known as well as the right, and in arithmetic the odd as well...

...deals with 'the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornefull sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one'.1 Sidney did not live long enough to see that antinomian old scamp Falstaff pursuing his career...

...answer. Only thus much now is to be said, that the comedy is an imitation, of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous...be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be con5' Heraclitus — an Ephesian philosopher of 6~5th century BC who was highly pessimistic and believed...

...Philip Sidney, "an imitation of the common errors of our life, which [the poet] representeth in the most scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible...that any beholder can be content to be such a one." The premise of Ben Jonson's "comical satire" was that the spectators, recognizing their faults and...