Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1966 - 287 pages |
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... play Richard tolerably well ; we can conceive no one to play Macbeth properly , or to look like a man that had encountered the Weird Sisters . All the actors that we have ever seen , appear as if they had encountered them on the boards ...
... play Richard tolerably well ; we can conceive no one to play Macbeth properly , or to look like a man that had encountered the Weird Sisters . All the actors that we have ever seen , appear as if they had encountered them on the boards ...
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... play of Shakespeare . It is one of the few in which he seems to be in earnest throughout , never to trifle nor go out of his way . He does not relax in his efforts , nor lose sight of the unity of his design . It is the only play of our ...
... play of Shakespeare . It is one of the few in which he seems to be in earnest throughout , never to trifle nor go out of his way . He does not relax in his efforts , nor lose sight of the unity of his design . It is the only play of our ...
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... play within a play . It is supposed to be a play acted for the benefit of Sly the tinker , who is made to believe himself a lord , when he wakes after a drunken brawl . The character of Sly and the remarks with which he accompanies the ...
... play within a play . It is supposed to be a play acted for the benefit of Sly the tinker , who is made to believe himself a lord , when he wakes after a drunken brawl . The character of Sly and the remarks with which he accompanies the ...
Contents
THE TEMPEST | 89 |
THE MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM | 95 |
ROMEO AND Juliet | 105 |
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