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... Character and Others ' in his Shakespeare and the Audience , Sprague describes a chorus character as ' one of the dramatis personae —often not a principal - who sums up a number of episodes in the play or whose remarks have obvious ...
... Character and Others ' in his Shakespeare and the Audience , Sprague describes a chorus character as ' one of the dramatis personae —often not a principal - who sums up a number of episodes in the play or whose remarks have obvious ...
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... character dispels for the occasion the ironic reservation mentioned by Harbage . Characters who stand apart from the action only to formulate what we already vaguely know , or to sympathize with what we already keenly feel , can not be ...
... character dispels for the occasion the ironic reservation mentioned by Harbage . Characters who stand apart from the action only to formulate what we already vaguely know , or to sympathize with what we already keenly feel , can not be ...
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... character , Faulconbridge the Bastard . He has been called a chorus , though some critics are sceptical , like Wolfgang Clemen : ' For this very soliloquy in which the Bastard attacks " Commodity , the bias of the world " reveals that ...
... character , Faulconbridge the Bastard . He has been called a chorus , though some critics are sceptical , like Wolfgang Clemen : ' For this very soliloquy in which the Bastard attacks " Commodity , the bias of the world " reveals that ...
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