Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267796595
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Excerpt from Miracle Plays and Sacred Dramas Are you not ashamed to tell so many lies? Athens Showed no accordance with this remark, although Plato, face to face with Greek tragedy in its high moral beauty, resolved to exclude the drama from his ideal republic, because it represented passion, in its unbridled, tempestuous display, as beautiful and worthy of imitation. The intel lect of his great scholar, on the contrary, did not scorn the task of unravelling the laws of the drama from the rich mass of the inherited treasures of Greek genius, while he placed the moral significance of tragedy in the purifica tion of our emotions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
