Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge: On the Rise of Shakespeare's Tragic HeroesUniversity Press of America, 1981 - 190 pages |
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... man's claim to dignity . Powerless and broken , a blind beggar hounded out of the city , he assumes a new grandeur . Man is ennobled by the vengeful spite or injustice of the gods . It does not make him innocent , but it hallows him as ...
... man's claim to dignity . Powerless and broken , a blind beggar hounded out of the city , he assumes a new grandeur . Man is ennobled by the vengeful spite or injustice of the gods . It does not make him innocent , but it hallows him as ...
Page 126
... man's oppression ; and the poor worm doth die for't . ( I.i.100 ) We are , in such passages , reminded of William Blake . Now Timon's soliloquy accepts these ' abhorrèd births ' as cared for equally with ' arrogant man ' by the ' common ...
... man's oppression ; and the poor worm doth die for't . ( I.i.100 ) We are , in such passages , reminded of William Blake . Now Timon's soliloquy accepts these ' abhorrèd births ' as cared for equally with ' arrogant man ' by the ' common ...
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... man no more than this ? Consider him well . Thou owe'st the worm no silk , the beast no hide , the sheep no wool , the cat no perfume . Ha ! Here's three on's are sophisticated ; thou art the thing itself . Unaccommodated man is no more ...
... man no more than this ? Consider him well . Thou owe'st the worm no silk , the beast no hide , the sheep no wool , the cat no perfume . Ha ! Here's three on's are sophisticated ; thou art the thing itself . Unaccommodated man is no more ...
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