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Acknowledgement; Note on the texts; 1. Introduction; 2. Plato: TheRepublic, III 3. Aristotle: The Poetics; 4. Horace: The Art of Poetry; 5.Donatus: On Comedy; 6. Francesco Robortello: Commentary on Aristotle'sPoetics; 7. Julius Caesar Scaliger: Poetics; 8. Bartolome de Torres deNaharro: Introduction to Propalladia; 9. Antonfrancesco Grazzini: The Witch:introductory dialogue; 10. Giambattista Giraldi: Prologue to Altile On theComposition of Comedies and Tragedies; 11. Ludovico Castelvetro: On the Artof Poetry; 12. Richard Edwards: Prologue to Damon and Pythias; 13.Giambattista Guarini: The Compendium of Tragicomic Poetry; 14. Sforza Oddi:Prologue to The Prison of Love; 15. George Whetstone: Promos and CassandraEpistle Dedicatory; 16. Angelo Ingegneri: On Mimetic Poetry 17. LorenzoGiacomini: On Purgation in Tragedy 18. Sir Philip Sidney: The Defence ofPoetry; 19. Lope de Vega Carpio: New Art of Making Comedies at the PresentTime; 20. Ben Jonson: Timber, or Discoveries Induction to Every Man Out ofhis Humour Prologue to Every Man in His Humour The Magnetic Lady Chorus; 21.Thomas Heywood: The Author to his Book An Apology for Actors 22. Tirso deMolina: The Country Houses of Toledo; 23. On Le Cid: Observations on Le CidThe Opinion of the French Academy Concerning Le Cid; 24. Francois Hedelin,Abbe d'Aubignac: The Practical Art of the Theatre; 25. Pierre Corneille: Onthe Purpose and Parts of a Play On Verisimilitude and the Necessary On theThree Unities; 26. Charles de Saint-Evremond: On Ancient and Modern Tragedy;27. Jean Racine: Notes to Aristotle's Poetics; Prefaces; 28. Thomas Rymer:The Tragedies of the Last Age A Short View of Tragedy; 29. John Dryden: AnEssay of Dramatic Poesy; 30. William Congreve: On Humour in Comedy;Bibliography; Index.