Letter

1 XIX|               Letter XIX: On Comedy~I am suprised that the judicious
2 XIX|      himself, in treating of comedy, merely to censure Shadwell
3 XIX|  defect that is in Moliere's comedy, the thinness of the plot,
4 XIX|     our concern. The English comedy affects us, and the contrivance
5 XIX|  principal character in this comedy isone Horner, a sly fortune
6 XIX|      distinction. He wrote a comedy during his confinement;
7 XIX| Congreve raised the glory of comedy to a greater height than
8 XIX|    to understand the English comedy, the only way to do this
9 XIX|      by the Greeks. But true comedy is the speaking picture