Show FUNCTION OF DRAMATIC In the ministration of art long been more or less CUt customary of late latA years cars it has been a to choose for et images es of mankind that an ars arebe hp and phases of human revolting and to justify the hoi eloU koi declaring that the purpose pf oil ft to hold the mirror up to nature nature-A r nature necessarily and everything ugly anel and venomous s. s function on of tragic art as slat Aristotle and confirmed by bJ tb of a ages es is to excite pHI ity terror that proposition is und The rhe heart can bo touched and the tho elevated b by the exposition ot of t of t experience but there is isa a wide wid the thc p portrayal 01 oft t experience and the portrayal of nn nil anatomy and physical disease practice of showing abhorrent character or and depraved condition conditions l on the stage has b been en pito pi pt to an insufferably tc tedious ious the purpose of the tte arts is Dot notto advance civilization mankind mankind to to awaken and stimulate the love or of-i of i ity t ty to diffuse gentleness of eel J refinement of manners and while in lug ing pleasure to m make ke men inca and ana WI i better then better then they have no P purpose iy is wort worthy by of being considered 1 wore nothing moro more in in tho the pretic the tho art rt of the theatre than that ingenuity liD r ii should display p person t trac w the and makin records rd ol ot Serving ering enin making and ana td individuals rac faces s of if common eb h that anOther person Perso play cleverness erness in in animating those records and tw the another should admire and apP ap their in ingenuity and cir of the the tre tho the art indeed i of thought he itt moro more worthy Cle no flO d an-d than are nrc the grimaces rimo es a j rions ot monkeys in in a 8 Winter in Harpers Harper's Ii- Ii d |