Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1966 - 287 pages |
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... stage , accounts for the want of prominence and theatri- cal display in Shakespeare's female characters from the circumstance , that women in those days were not allowed to play the parts of women , which made it necessary to keep them ...
... stage , accounts for the want of prominence and theatri- cal display in Shakespeare's female characters from the circumstance , that women in those days were not allowed to play the parts of women , which made it necessary to keep them ...
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... stage do not agree well together . The attempt to reconcile them in this instance fails not only of effect , but of decorum . The ideal can have no place upon the stage , which is a picture without perspective : everything there is in ...
... stage do not agree well together . The attempt to reconcile them in this instance fails not only of effect , but of decorum . The ideal can have no place upon the stage , which is a picture without perspective : everything there is in ...
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... stage and are confined to lines of ten syllables ; where no blood follows the stroke that wounds our ears , where no harvest bends beneath horses ' hoofs , no city flames , no little child is butchered , no dead men's bodies are found ...
... stage and are confined to lines of ten syllables ; where no blood follows the stroke that wounds our ears , where no harvest bends beneath horses ' hoofs , no city flames , no little child is butchered , no dead men's bodies are found ...
Contents
THE TEMPEST | 89 |
THE MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM | 95 |
ROMEO AND Juliet | 105 |
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