The Tragic Engagement: A Study of Shakespeare's Classical TragediesFunk & Wagnalls, 1968 - 336 pages |
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... play pour out in large , irregular energies , that then ani- mate its characters . When a play is written , among other things , emotions are splashed on paper . However artfully the author's presence may be sublimated and subdued , a ...
... play pour out in large , irregular energies , that then ani- mate its characters . When a play is written , among other things , emotions are splashed on paper . However artfully the author's presence may be sublimated and subdued , a ...
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... play , yet one subject to steady change from play to play . So D. G. James saw Shakespeare as en- gaged in intellectual discovery , rather than as expressing a static synthesis of old ideas . We will therefore consider chronologically ...
... play , yet one subject to steady change from play to play . So D. G. James saw Shakespeare as en- gaged in intellectual discovery , rather than as expressing a static synthesis of old ideas . We will therefore consider chronologically ...
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... play is a study of a city rectifying its mistakes in a gesture of stubborn survival . The resemblances of the narrow ... play that has made it almost inaccessible to modern playgoers ; its excesses of spectacle - hands chopped off , a ...
... play is a study of a city rectifying its mistakes in a gesture of stubborn survival . The resemblances of the narrow ... play that has made it almost inaccessible to modern playgoers ; its excesses of spectacle - hands chopped off , a ...
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