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8. The Platonic Element in the Restoration Heroic Play

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

William S. Clark  and
Kathleen M. Lynch
William S. Clark
Affiliation:
Amherst College
Kathleen M. Lynch
Affiliation:
Mt. Holyoke College
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Comment and Criticism
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PMLA , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , June 1930 , pp. 623 - 626
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1930

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References

1 “Conventions of Platonic Drama in the Heroic Plays of Orrery and Dryden, PMLA XLIV (1929), 456-71.

2 RES (1928), IV, 49-63.

1 V, iii.

2 Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatick Poets (Oxford, 1691), p. 497.

3 The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. H. B. Wheatley (London, 1893-1899), VII, p. 147.

4 My book on The Social Mode of Restoration Comedy (New York, 1926) had its origin in this point of view regarding Congreve.