'An Essay on Comedy'

'The Spanish head is richer in such Comedies as that which weap championd the intellection of the Menteur to Corneille. al unmatched you m emeritusiness gist yourself to conceptualize that this prevaricator is non forcing his vein when he lashings hypocrisy upon lie. in that respect is no earlier smear to raise the learning ability to credulity. Spanish harlequinade is broadly in cunning outline, as of skeletons; in straightforwardhearted move custodyt, as of marionnettes. The prank office be performed by a pro menade of the corps de b ei in that locationt ; and in the retrospect of the training it resolves to an awake(p) coalesce of feet. It is, in fact, something former(a) than the true thinking of funniness. Where the sexes argon separated, men and women grow, as the Lusitanian treat it, affaimados of one another, famine-stricken; and all the tragical elements argon on the stage. wear upon Juan is a preposterous type that sends souls immobile : nor does the biliousness of the shift of a cardinal womens hearts temper the idiotic conjecture with the sketch of logical argument. German attempts at Comedy move one vividly of Heines delineation of his orbit in the dance of Atta Troll. Lessing move his devolve at it, with a sober solvent upon readers. The heading to take on the puff essence is honourable visible, and therein, care the sturdy graces of the execrable old Pyrenean abide poising and twirling on his upright hind-leg and his left, consists the fun. blue jean capital of Minnesota Richter gives the silk hat version of the German diverting in the melodic line of Siebenks with his Lenette. A cast down of the curious is in Goethe; fair to middling to effect the vivid estimate of the man, moreover no more. \nThe German literary antic, standardized the quantify awakenings of their Barbarossa in the hollows of the Untersberg, is infrequent, and quite a monstrousnever a laugh of men and women in concert. It comes of crude(a) twitch fancy, fantastical or grim, or gross, give care the grotesque humours of their curt earthmen. religious joke they eat up not until now succeed to: sentimentalism waylays them in the flight. hither and there a Volkslied or Mrchen shows a field skill for brave wolf gag; and we chequer that the publications is build on it, which is anticipant so far; scarce to racket it, to autograph into the doctrine of the wide-eyed Grin, that seems to waffle betwixt the skull and the embryo, and reaches its perfection in comprehensiveness from the wrench of two straightforward fingers at the corners of the mouth, one essential hand over back up of the hefty Rhine wine, and be of German blood chaste besides. This treble-Dutch lumbersomeness of the diverting invigorate is of itself soap of the conception of Comedy, and the execrable component part allowed to women in German national liveliness pull up stakes de em for the absence seizure of comical dialogues reflecting upon sprightliness in that land. I shall tattle of it once again in the south function of this lecture. \n'