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... tragic error . Here , at least , we are on safe ground in rejecting any such view : if Hamlet's tragic error were his generosity of mind — his incapacity to deal with a barbaric duty - we should find the play's climax centering on this ...
... tragic error . Here , at least , we are on safe ground in rejecting any such view : if Hamlet's tragic error were his generosity of mind — his incapacity to deal with a barbaric duty - we should find the play's climax centering on this ...
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... tragic action of the con- flict of the wills of men and gods . Sometimes the augury chastens human will that has broken divine law , as Creon has done with his cruel decree in Sopho- cles ' Antigone . Ironically , in this play , the ...
... tragic action of the con- flict of the wills of men and gods . Sometimes the augury chastens human will that has broken divine law , as Creon has done with his cruel decree in Sopho- cles ' Antigone . Ironically , in this play , the ...
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... tragic development , and implies that after he wrote this , some sort of decline set in . Some exponents of this view are inclined to bring forward Timon of Athens , for the dating of which play there is not much direct evidence , and ...
... tragic development , and implies that after he wrote this , some sort of decline set in . Some exponents of this view are inclined to bring forward Timon of Athens , for the dating of which play there is not much direct evidence , and ...
Contents
ROBERT ORNSTEIN CHARACTER AND REALITY IN SHAKESPEARE | 3 |
ROBERT B HEILMAN MANLINESS IN THE TRAGEDIES | 19 |
WILLIAM T HASTINGS IS HAMLET A HOAX? | 38 |
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