Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 61Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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... Prospero lies not in melting into air but in melting so easily into his brother . Even Prospero's confession that " our little life / Is rounded with a sleep " implies that our little lives are rounded ( T , 4.1.157-58 ) . The image is ...
... Prospero lies not in melting into air but in melting so easily into his brother . Even Prospero's confession that " our little life / Is rounded with a sleep " implies that our little lives are rounded ( T , 4.1.157-58 ) . The image is ...
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... Prospero : " Your charm so strongly works ' em [ Prospero's enemies ] / That if you now beheld them , your affections / Would become tender " ( 5.1.17-19 ) . In Aristotelian terms , if Prospero is the efficient cause of art in The ...
... Prospero : " Your charm so strongly works ' em [ Prospero's enemies ] / That if you now beheld them , your affections / Would become tender " ( 5.1.17-19 ) . In Aristotelian terms , if Prospero is the efficient cause of art in The ...
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... Prospero's " command " " [ t ] o th ' syl- lable " hints that Prospero is willing every detail of the ac- tion in 2.1 ( 1.2.501 ) . Other explanations of the scene , however , make more sense and require less elaborate reasoning - for ...
... Prospero's " command " " [ t ] o th ' syl- lable " hints that Prospero is willing every detail of the ac- tion in 2.1 ( 1.2.501 ) . Other explanations of the scene , however , make more sense and require less elaborate reasoning - for ...
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