George Chapman Quotes:
Ocupation: Dramatist
Life: 1559 - May 12, 1634
Birthday: 1559
Death: May 12
And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.
source: George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.178
topic: Deflection, Elegant
