The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... materials for a complete drama ready to his 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 ...
... materials for a complete drama ready to his 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 ...
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... materials . When spiritual and intellectual conditions are repeated , the action or expression of the mind ... material comes to their hand for the purpose of entertaining others . The instinct which prompts men of this tem ...
... materials . When spiritual and intellectual conditions are repeated , the action or expression of the mind ... material comes to their hand for the purpose of entertaining others . The instinct which prompts men of this tem ...
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... materials from the life about him , and he used good native speech . He had learned from the Latin comedy how to construct both a plot and a play , and his training gave him easy mastery of sound expression ; but he composed his ...
... materials from the life about him , and he used good native speech . He had learned from the Latin comedy how to construct both a plot and a play , and his training gave him easy mastery of sound expression ; but he composed his ...
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... material for Shakespeare's hand , but prepared Shakespeare's audiences to understand his work . These plays practically cover a period of four centuries , and bring the story of English history down to the Armada . 66 In close ...
... material for Shakespeare's hand , but prepared Shakespeare's audiences to understand his work . These plays practically cover a period of four centuries , and bring the story of English history down to the Armada . 66 In close ...
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... material he wished to use ; it was vital rather than exact ; it was used freely , without any pretension to thoroughness ; it served immediate ends with the highest intelligence , and is inaccurate with the indifference of a poet who ...
... material he wished to use ; it was vital rather than exact ; it was used freely , without any pretension to thoroughness ; it served immediate ends with the highest intelligence , and is inaccurate with the indifference of a poet who ...
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