gally

Section I of Gally's essay, thoroughly conventional in nature, is omitted here.

It is Gally's concept of the character as an art-form, however, which is most interesting to the modern scholar.

Gally breaks sharply with earlier character-writers like Overbury who, he thinks, have departed from the Theophrastan method.

Human nature, says Gally, is full of subtle shadings and agreeable variations which the v character ought to exploit.

Gally's essay thus reflects fundamental changes in the English attitude toward human nature and its literary representation.