...head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion, so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained ... So falleth it out that, having indeed no right comedy, in that comical part...

...'all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns ... so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the...right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragic-comedy obtained'. Samuel Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare, in Green (ed.), Samuel Johnson, p. 423. 52. Headlam...

...head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion, so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained. Sir Philip Sidney, Apology for Poetry (1 595) It is also what G. K Hunter in...

...head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion, so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained. Sir Philip Sidney, Apology for Poetry (written c. 1 579-80, published 1 595)...

...155 and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion. So as neither the admiration and commiseration nor the right sportfulness is by their mongrel tragicomedy obtained. I know Apuleius did somewhat so, but that is a thing recounted with space of...