Discuss Dryden's comparison of the English and the French drama in the "ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESIE"?PLZ ANSWER IN DETAIL

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•Lisideius argues
that French drama is superior to English drama, based on the lack of literary
productivity since Shakespeare’s time: “we have been so long together bad Englishmen,
that we had not leisure to be good poets. . .  The Muses, who ever follow peace, went to
plant in another country.”   Lisideius praises the reformation of the French theater
under Richelieu and Corneille, and extols the close adherence to the classical
separation of comedy and tragedy. For Lisideius "no theater in the world has anything so
absurd as the English tragicomedy . . . in two hours and a half, we run through all the
fits of Bedlam."  The grounding of French drama in history, its interweaving “truth with
probable fiction,” makes it a higher achievement than the
English.

Neander represents Dryden’s own views, which favor the
modern and the English, but does not disparage the ancients.  He respects Lisideius’
argument that the French “contrive their plots more regularly,” but he favors English
drama for their more organic and complex qualities.  He criticizes the French stage,
noting that "those beauties of the French poesy are such as will raise perfection higher
where it is, but are not sufficient to give it where it is not: they are indeed the
beauties of a statue, but not of a man."

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