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This short treatise professes to be the introduction to a translation of a speech by Demosthenes called On the Crown, and a speech of his rival, Aeschines, called Against Ctesiphon. Cicero was an advocate of free translation: "The essence of successful oratory, he insists, is that it should 'instruct, delight, and move the minds of his audience ...
A Short Organum for the Theatre" ("Kleines Organon für das Theater") is a theoretical work by the twentieth-century German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht. [1] It was written while in Switzerland in 1948 and published in 1949. [ 2 ]
Collier, instead, preferred his restrictions imposed on comedy (e.g. his rigid Neoclassical notions of dramatic decorum) and in doing so he followed a logic similar to what is found in the work of other critics who had imposed the law of poetic justice on tragedy (e.g. Thomas Rymer and his A Short View of Tragedy (1693)).
A Treatise on the Astrolabe; A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem; A Treatise on the Circle and the Sphere; Treatise on the Faith and Practice of the Free Will Baptists; A Treatise on the Family; Treatise on the Gods; Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown; Treatise on the Left Emanation; A Treatise on the Patriarchal, or Co ...
He composed several poems. He also wrote a short treatise in epistolary form, which deals with the nature of nothing and darkness, De nihilo et tenebris. [3] The epistle was written probably during the author's residence at Tours. It is addressed "to all the faithful and to those who dwell in the sacred Palace of the most serene prince Charles".
The Nāṭya Shāstra (Sanskrit: नाट्य शास्त्र, Nāṭyaśāstra) is a Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The text is attributed to sage Bharata , and its first complete compilation is dated to between 200 BCE and 200 CE, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] but estimates vary between 500 BCE and 500 CE.
First page of "La dioptrique" by René Descartes. La dioptrique (in English Dioptrique, Optics, or Dioptrics) is a short treatise by René Descartes.It was published in 1637 included in one of the Essays written with Discourse on the Method.
John Dryden ' s Essay of Dramatick Poesy [1] was likely written in 1666 during the Great Plague of London and published in 1668. Dryden's claim in this essay was that poetic drama with English and Spanish influence [2] is a justifiable art form when compared to traditional French poetry.