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Page 392
... play upon some absurd phase which may create a scene , but which has no relation to the original motive . In the case of Macbeth , the tragic note of the play is sounded in Lady Macbeth's ambition , not in her husband's ambition , or ...
... play upon some absurd phase which may create a scene , but which has no relation to the original motive . In the case of Macbeth , the tragic note of the play is sounded in Lady Macbeth's ambition , not in her husband's ambition , or ...
Page 395
... play , and that while Shake- speare's plays stand this test , they " do not stand the test of origi- nality of plot , probability , or even possibility , of story , of dramatic situations at the end of the acts , of neatness and ...
... play , and that while Shake- speare's plays stand this test , they " do not stand the test of origi- nality of plot , probability , or even possibility , of story , of dramatic situations at the end of the acts , of neatness and ...
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the fact that Mr. Wills's play resembles neither the work of Goethe nor that of Barbier and Carré , nor even that of Mr. Wills at his best . Hard on the scene just referred to follows one in which Faust , as the play is now given ...
the fact that Mr. Wills's play resembles neither the work of Goethe nor that of Barbier and Carré , nor even that of Mr. Wills at his best . Hard on the scene just referred to follows one in which Faust , as the play is now given ...
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COLQUHOUN Archibald | 173 |
Their Best Form | 184 |
DE BORRING Frances Mary | 286 |
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