Characters of Shakespeare's PlaysH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1929 - 287 pages |
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Page xxxix
... comedy often surpasses he expectation or desire . His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language , and his tragedy , for the greater part , by incident and action . His tragedy seems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . ' Yet ...
... comedy often surpasses he expectation or desire . His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language , and his tragedy , for the greater part , by incident and action . His tragedy seems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . ' Yet ...
Page 270
William Hazlitt. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS THIS Comedy is taken very much from the Menae- chmi of Plautus , and is not an improvement on it . Shakespeare appears to have bestowed no great pains on it , and there are but a few passages which ...
William Hazlitt. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS THIS Comedy is taken very much from the Menae- chmi of Plautus , and is not an improvement on it . Shakespeare appears to have bestowed no great pains on it , and there are but a few passages which ...
Page 271
... comedy is the one in which the Abbess , with admirable characteristic artifice , makes Adriana confess her own misconduct in driving her husband mad . Abbess . How long hath this possession held the man ? Adriana . This week he hath ...
... comedy is the one in which the Abbess , with admirable characteristic artifice , makes Adriana confess her own misconduct in driving her husband mad . Abbess . How long hath this possession held the man ? Adriana . This week he hath ...
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