Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1947 - 287 pages |
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... story are thrown into the form of a dialogue , and the intermediate circumstances are explained by the different speakers , as occasion renders it necessary . The action is less concen- trated in consequence ; but the interest becomes ...
... story are thrown into the form of a dialogue , and the intermediate circumstances are explained by the different speakers , as occasion renders it necessary . The action is less concen- trated in consequence ; but the interest becomes ...
Page 126
... story could be built with the greatest truth and effect . It is his rash haste , his violent impetuosity , his blindness to everything but the dictates of his passions or affections , that produces all his misfortunes , that aggravates ...
... story could be built with the greatest truth and effect . It is his rash haste , his violent impetuosity , his blindness to everything but the dictates of his passions or affections , that produces all his misfortunes , that aggravates ...
Page 278
... story of Valentine and Orson ; a beautiful subject which Lope de Vega has also taken for a play . Arden of Feversham is said to be a tragedy on the story of a man , from whom the poet was descended by the mother's side . If the quality ...
... story of Valentine and Orson ; a beautiful subject which Lope de Vega has also taken for a play . Arden of Feversham is said to be a tragedy on the story of a man , from whom the poet was descended by the mother's side . If the quality ...
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