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... role and final speeches were prepared for by Henry's prophecy in the third part of Henry VI , which Richard also recalls in this play , al- though he was not present to hear it spoken . Historically , Richmond's victory was unavoidable ...
... role and final speeches were prepared for by Henry's prophecy in the third part of Henry VI , which Richard also recalls in this play , al- though he was not present to hear it spoken . Historically , Richmond's victory was unavoidable ...
Page 186
... role that has been thrust upon him unavoidable . Lear loses control from the start , having understood neither his own role , nor the actors around him , nor the play . In signs that invite stage parlance , Macbeth shows his inadequacy ...
... role that has been thrust upon him unavoidable . Lear loses control from the start , having understood neither his own role , nor the actors around him , nor the play . In signs that invite stage parlance , Macbeth shows his inadequacy ...
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... role at the centre of the various actions , setting the tone , embodying significant char- acteristics , and finally interpreting . 6 R. W. Dent sees Oberon as a controlling force in the play in ' Imagination in A Midsummer Night's ...
... role at the centre of the various actions , setting the tone , embodying significant char- acteristics , and finally interpreting . 6 R. W. Dent sees Oberon as a controlling force in the play in ' Imagination in A Midsummer Night's ...
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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