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... thing,” because “criticism is live conversation,” and I have tried to be true to that conversational idiom, punctuating the text with commas and dashes, for example, where a more formal text might demand semicolons, in order to convey ...
... things in life, is keenly aware of values. They go to a night club. Yes, she is a wonderful sport, she enters wholeheartedly into the spirit of things. Later, yes, she responds beautifully to his love-making, is very understanding, says ...
... thing, too. Then the real tasks of life will begin. . . . This comment may be true, and it is funny, but what it misses is the degree of wit and tenderness in the play that makes the catastrophe, as Northrop Frye remarks, seem almost an ...
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Contents
Henry VI Parts One Two and Three 3 | 3 |
13 | 13 |
The Comedy of Errors and The Two Gentlemen of Verona 23 | 23 |
Loves Labours Lost | 33 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 53 |
The Taming of the Shrew King John and Richard II | 63 |
Henry IV Parts One and Two and Henry V | 101 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | 124 |
Alls Well That Ends Well | 181 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 231 |
Timon of Athens | 255 |
Pericles and Cymbeline | 270 |
Concluding Lecture | 308 |
APPENDIX I | 321 |
Fall Term Final Examination | 341 |
Audens Markings in Kittredge | 347 |