Views of Crites,Eugenius and Neander,Lisideus on Drama.

1. Paper-3
 Name: Dabhi Vipul C
 Roll No: 47
 Enrollment No: 2069108420180009
 Topic: Views of Crites, Eugenius & Neander, Lisideus
on Drama
 M. A. Sem-1
 Email Id: dabhivc04@gmail.com
 Batch:2017-19
 Submitted to: Department Of English MKBU

2. Introduction
 In Dryden’s essay ‘The Dramatic
Poesy’ we see the character who
represents critical position.
 John Dryden represents the
claims of the two sides as debate
among four friend.
 Crites – Ancient
 Eugenius-Modern over the
ancient
 Neander- Favours moderns but
does not disparage ancient
 Lisideus-French drama superior
to English drama

3. Views of Crites
 Crites- Sir Robert Howard:
 Who argues in favor of the ancient and raises objections to
modern plays.
 “Moderns stand on shoulder of ancient”.
 The moderns are still imitating the ancients and using
their forms and subjects relying on Aristotle & Horace.
 Adding nothing new and not following their good advice
closely either, especially with respect to the unities of time,
place and action.
 Dramatic rules were spelled out by Aristotle which the
current and esteemed French play wrights follow.

4. Continue…
 The unity of time suggests that all the action should be
portrayed within a single day.
 The English plays attempt to use long periods of time,
sometimes years.
 In anticipating the objection that the ancients language is
not as vital as the modern.
 Crites says that we have to remember that we are probably
missing a lot of subtleties because the language are dead
and the customs are far removed from this time.
 Ancients Greece and Rome poetry was more honored than
any other works.
 Observed nature and followed the rules of Dramatic
composition.

5. Views of Eugenius :
 Eugenius – Charles Sackville
 Favors moderns over the ancients
 Argued that the moderns exceed the ancient because
of having learned and profited from their example.
 Moderns have perfected his division and divided their
plays not only into acts but also into scenes.
 Ancient are inferior to the moderns in all these respect
like three unities.
 Moderns are not followed with blind way but they
excel new things in many ways.

6. Continue…
 Modernist have model so that they learn from that and
gives new ideas from their example..
 Because of the greater pains they take, they are nearer
to perfection than the ancient.
 Their greater labor makes them superior in science as
well in poetry, but crites proves that.

7. Views of Neander
 Neander-Dryden
 Favors modern English plays
 Does not disparage the ancients.
 He favor English drama- and has some criotical things to
say of French drama: “Those beauties of the French poesy
are such as will raise perfection higher where it is, but are
not sufficient to give it where it is not; They are indeed the
beauties of a statue, but not of a man”.
 He brings up the idea of the suspension of disbilief.
 He does not agree with Lisideius that it is unnatural to
change over from a tragic seen to a comic one or vice versa.

8. Views of Lisideius
 Lisideius-Charles Sedley
 Who argues that French drama is superior to English drama.
 Basing this opinion of the French writer’s close adherence to the
classical separation of comedy and tragedy.
 For Lisideius “No theater in the world has anything so absurd as
the English tragicomedy…in two hours and a half, we run
through all the fits of Bedlam.”
 He agrees with Eugenius that in the last generation the English
drama was superior.
 They live in an awful as full of bloodshed and violence, and
poetry is an art of peace.
 The plot of the tragedies are based on well known stories.
 The French narration are better managed and more skill full
than those of the English.

9. Conclusion
 So we can say that they all give their views on plays
that Crites favors ancient and Eugenius favors
moderns.
 Lisideius favors French and Neander, Dryden himself
favors modern English, he be on side of ancient also.