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Page viii
... certain respects , the lines marked out years ago by Dr. Edward Dowden , a critic who has rendered very important service to Shakespearean scholarship . The word Romance as happily descriptive of the later plays has been viii Preface.
... certain respects , the lines marked out years ago by Dr. Edward Dowden , a critic who has rendered very important service to Shakespearean scholarship . The word Romance as happily descriptive of the later plays has been viii Preface.
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... marked , however , one important step in the development of the English drama : they created opportunities for professional actors , and made acting as a profession possible . The earlier plays had been in the hands of amateurs ; men ...
... marked , however , one important step in the development of the English drama : they created opportunities for professional actors , and made acting as a profession possible . The earlier plays had been in the hands of amateurs ; men ...
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... marked gift for the construction of strong and well- elaborated plots ; his study of character was neither vigorous nor convincing . Nash was , on the other hand , a born satirist , with a coarse but very effective method and a humour ...
... marked gift for the construction of strong and well- elaborated plots ; his study of character was neither vigorous nor convincing . Nash was , on the other hand , a born satirist , with a coarse but very effective method and a humour ...
Page 104
... marked , but it had not hardened into final forms . The genius of Marlowe had brought to its development the rich- ness of diction and the imaginative splendour of great poetry . It remained for Shakespeare to harmonize both language ...
... marked , but it had not hardened into final forms . The genius of Marlowe had brought to its development the rich- ness of diction and the imaginative splendour of great poetry . It remained for Shakespeare to harmonize both language ...
Page 107
... marked in the form and substance of his work ; he was in no sense a miracle , in no way an exception to the universal law of growth through experience , of spiritual ripening by the process of living , and of the development of skill ...
... marked in the form and substance of his work ; he was in no sense a miracle , in no way an exception to the universal law of growth through experience , of spiritual ripening by the process of living , and of the development of skill ...
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