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Acknowledgement Note on the texts 1. Introduction 2. Plato: The Republic, III 3. Aristotle: The Poetics 4. Horace: The Art of Poetry 5. Donatus: On Comedy 6. Francesco Robortello: Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics 7. Julius Caesar Scaliger: Poetics 8. Bartolome de Torres de Naharro: Introduction to Propalladia 9. Antonfrancesco Grazzini: The Witch: introductory dialogue 10. Giambattista Giraldi: Prologue to Altile On the Composition of Comedies and Tragedies 11. Ludovico Castelvetro: On the Art of 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 Cassandra Epistle Dedicatory 16. Angelo Ingegneri: On Mimetic Poetry 17. Lorenzo Giacomini: On Purgation in Tragedy 18. Sir Philip Sidney: The Defence of Poetry 19. Lope de Vega Carpio: New Art of Making Comedies at the Present Time 20. Ben Jonson: Timber, or Discoveries Induction to Every Man Out of his 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 de Molina: The Country Houses of Toledo 23. On Le Cid: Observations on Le Cid The Opinion of the French Academy Concerning Le Cid 24. Francois Hedelin, Abbe d'Aubignac: The Practical Art of the Theatre 25. Pierre Corneille: On the Purpose and Parts of a Play On Verisimilitude and the Necessary On the Three 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: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 30. William Congreve: On Humour in Comedy Bibliography Index.