Aristotle Poetics 26.4

Thomas Twining (Translator)

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Such is Tragedy. It may also be compared to what the modern actors are in the estimation of their predecessors; for Myniscus used to call Callipides, on account of his intemperate action, the ape-and Tyndarus was censured on the same account. What these performers are with respect to their predecessors, the Tragic imitation, when entire, is to the Epic.

Poetics. Aristotle. Thomas Twining (Translator). London, UK. 1789.

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Poetics (Thomas Twining, 1789) (OCR draft) (English) (Thomas Twining's English translation of Aristotle's Poetics, published in 1789 and aligned to the Kassel reference passage sequence.)

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The Poetic of Aristotle (Henry James Pye, revised 1792) (OCR draft) Experimental (Henry James Pye's revised 1792 English translation, corrected against the 1788 first edition, aligned to the Kassel reference edition, and supplied with a selective apparatus of substantive 1788 readings.) — 26.4 focus
Now, the same censure that the older actors cast on the modern ones, may, according 1 2 3 4 5
The Poetic of Aristotle (Theodore Alois Buckley) (OCR draft) Experimental (Theodore Alois Buckley's English translation, first published in 1850 and represented from the Henry G. Bohn 1857 printing; corrected against a second OCR and aligned to the Kassel reference passage sequence.) — 26.4 focus
as the modern actors are in the estimation of their predecessors3. Hence, Myniscus called Callipides an ape, in consequence of carrying his imitation to a great excess. And there was also a similar opinion respecting Pindar [the player]. But as these latter actors are to the former, so is the whole art of tragedy to the epopee.
La poëtique d'Aristote (André Dacier, 1692) (OCR draft) Experimental (André Dacier's French translation of Aristotle's Poetics, published in 1692.) — 26.4 focus
C'eſt là le défaut de la Tragedie, & c'eſt le reproche que les anciens Comediens faiſoient aux plus jeunes, car ſur ce que Callippide étoit exceſſif dans ſes geſtes, Muniſcus l'appelloit le ſinge. On faiſoit la même raillerie du Comedien Pindare, de ſorte qu'à ce compte la Tragedie ſeroit auprés de l'Epopée, ce que ces derniers Acteurs ſont auprés des premiers.