A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment by Leon Mechele;

A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment by Leon Mechele;

Author:Leon, Mechele; [Leon, Mechele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019-07-30T00:00:00+00:00


Painters and poets excite these artificial passions by presenting imitations of objects capable of exciting true passions in us. Because the impression that these imitations make on us is of the same nature as the object’s impression imitated by the painter or the poet would be on us; because the impression made by the imitation is only different from the imitated object’s impression in that it is weaker, it must therefore excite in our mind a passion that resembles that which the imitated object could have excited. The copy of the object must thus excite in us a copy of the passion that the object would have excited.50



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