Note 137 — Chapter III
Reading edition
He seems to have connected heroic plays too closely with "the romances of Calprenède and Scudéri." See his introduction to The Indian Emperor, Dryden, Vol. II, pp. 317-20; also Vol. I, p. 56, and Vol. VI, p. 125. On his opinion in regard to the relation between novels and plays see below, pp. 75-6.