Unconformities in Shakespeare’s History Plays |
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... Rossiter . Writing about Richard II , he declared that ' Whether you approach [ this play ] from the angle of the texture of the verse , the verse - styles , character , plot or theme , you encounter what geologists call ...
... Rossiter . Writing about Richard II , he declared that ' Whether you approach [ this play ] from the angle of the texture of the verse , the verse - styles , character , plot or theme , you encounter what geologists call ...
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... Rossiter , like Ornstein , sees Shakespeare as the untrammelled artist , but also as a man with a lively awareness both of the society he lived in and of the past which had shaped it . He was influenced by myths and orthodoxies but ...
... Rossiter , like Ornstein , sees Shakespeare as the untrammelled artist , but also as a man with a lively awareness both of the society he lived in and of the past which had shaped it . He was influenced by myths and orthodoxies but ...
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... Rossiter is probably the one who has most confidently expressed his sense of a major unconformity in the play , located , as he thinks , between Acts II and III and indicated by ' a discontinuity in character ; some marked incoherences ...
... Rossiter is probably the one who has most confidently expressed his sense of a major unconformity in the play , located , as he thinks , between Acts II and III and indicated by ' a discontinuity in character ; some marked incoherences ...
Contents
The Whole Contention One Play into | 19 |
Treachery and Dissension Two Plays into | 38 |
Plots and Prophecies | 59 |
Copyright | |
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