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... conclusion : if comedy asserts recognized values , they are also those of the audience . One basic requirement of comedy is that it be found amusing . We are said to laugh most readily at the harmless , at that in which we are ...
... conclusion : if comedy asserts recognized values , they are also those of the audience . One basic requirement of comedy is that it be found amusing . We are said to laugh most readily at the harmless , at that in which we are ...
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... conclusions about her situation except the final one : the spec- tators know who is guilty . There is also a voicing of audience indig- nation and pity here , and a heightening of emotion in Marcus ' beauti- ful lines about the former ...
... conclusions about her situation except the final one : the spec- tators know who is guilty . There is also a voicing of audience indig- nation and pity here , and a heightening of emotion in Marcus ' beauti- ful lines about the former ...
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... conclusion : ' if idealism has need of critics , its critics have still more need of idealism ' . 47 Shakespeare the Craftsman , pp . 75-96 , quoted from pp . 77 and 96 . 48 Introduction , New Cambridge edition , pp . vii and xxxviii ...
... conclusion : ' if idealism has need of critics , its critics have still more need of idealism ' . 47 Shakespeare the Craftsman , pp . 75-96 , quoted from pp . 77 and 96 . 48 Introduction , New Cambridge edition , pp . vii and xxxviii ...
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action aesthetic All's Antony and Cleopatra Apemantus argues artist attitude audience sympathies Berowne Bertram Bilton Bolingbroke Brutus choric chorus Claudio comic Coriolanus critical death discusses dramatic authority dramatist dream Duke E. K. Chambers Elizabethan emotional Enobarbus evil experience Falstaff Faulconbridge feel Feste final Flavius Fool Friar Laurence gives Hamlet hear Helena Henry hero honour Iago illusion Imogen interpretation irony Jaques John judgement Julius Caesar King L. C. Knights Lear Lear's Leontes lovers Macbeth main characters Marcus Measure for Measure mind moral Muriel Bradbrook nature Othello Pericles play's plot political Prince Problem Plays Prospero response Richard Richard III role romance Romeo and Juliet Rosalind satirical says scene seems sense Shake Shakespeare Shakespearian Shylock speaks spectator speech stage structure theme Thersites thou Tillyard Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Touchstone tragedy tragic Troilus and Cressida Wilson Knight words