Word: reals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...College or to the Dean of the College Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. The essays are to be signed with a motto or an assumed name, and must be accompanied by a sealed envelope marked outside with the same motto or name, but enclosing a statement of the real name and academic standing of the author...
...Copeland brought out clearly and forcibly the virtues and the faults of the old-comedy writers. No one felt the influence of the Puritan spirit less than Wycherly, Congreve and Farquaar. These men saw the follies and fashions of the time, thought they represented real life and as such chose to depict them. Now we realize that the world they lived in was only the artificial world. An example of a contemporary production which suffers from the same fault is Mr. Oscar Wilde's "A Woman of No Importance...
...other language than our own can there be found such a series of historical dramas as Shakespeare has given us in King John, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Richard III, and Henry VIII. There has been a great deal of dispute as to the real authors of these plays and the times when they were written; but such questions, though perhaps interesting to scholars, are of no great concern to one who reads Shakespeare for pleasure. To such a reader, too, it makes but little difference whether or not the plays are historically accurate...
...general idea of nature is the most important. A picture, accurate in every detail of some scene in real life, is pleasing when we first look at it, because of the story which it tells, but it always tells the same story; it can tell but one story because of the care which has been taken to represent this one idea truthfully. A picture fulfilling our ideal gives the suggestion of nature with just sufficient accuracy to enable the outsider to put his own characters in the place of those on the canvas, so that the picture...
Extreme Realism is saying too much, and extreme Impressionism is saying too little, but saying the right thing is just as acceptable in painting as in society, and the impression of the real and the reality of the truth in painting is saying the right thing...