The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... hand contact with it , any deep - going and adequate concep- tion of what it is , and what it means in the life of the race . It requires a great effort of the imagination to put ourselves into the attitude of those early men who had ...
... hand contact with it , any deep - going and adequate concep- tion of what it is , and what it means in the life of the race . It requires a great effort of the imagination to put ourselves into the attitude of those early men who had ...
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... hand . It is sober history , therefore , and not figur- ative speech , that the drama was born at the foot of the altar . And more than eighteen hundred years later the drama was born again at the foot of the altar . Whatever invis ...
... hand . It is sober history , therefore , and not figur- ative speech , that the drama was born at the foot of the altar . And more than eighteen hundred years later the drama was born again at the foot of the altar . Whatever invis ...
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... hand for the purpose of entertaining others . The instinct which prompts men of this tem- per to make a story of every happening by selecting the most striking incidents , rearranging them , and heightening the effect by skilful ...
... hand for the purpose of entertaining others . The instinct which prompts men of this tem- per to make a story of every happening by selecting the most striking incidents , rearranging them , and heightening the effect by skilful ...
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... hands of amateurs ; men who had , in many cases , considerable skill in acting , but who were members of guilds , with other and different occupa- tions . Side by side with the Mystery and Miracle plays there had percolated through the ...
... hands of amateurs ; men who had , in many cases , considerable skill in acting , but who were members of guilds , with other and different occupa- tions . Side by side with the Mystery and Miracle plays there had percolated through the ...
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... hands was less ambitious in con- struction than a play ; shorter , more vivacious , and much closer to the life of the time . It was often rude , but it was oftener racy , direct , and effective in ex- pression ; using the familiar ...
... hands was less ambitious in con- struction than a play ; shorter , more vivacious , and much closer to the life of the time . It was often rude , but it was oftener racy , direct , and effective in ex- pression ; using the familiar ...
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