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Page 367
... action of the play is predominantly in the passive mode - the suffering of forces not controlled or understood , rather than the consistent drive of an intelligible purpose . Hamlet is , like The Cherry Orchard , in its essential ...
... action of the play is predominantly in the passive mode - the suffering of forces not controlled or understood , rather than the consistent drive of an intelligible purpose . Hamlet is , like The Cherry Orchard , in its essential ...
Page 368
... action in Hamlet . In such a nonconducting atmosphere , all purposes are short , hidden , and mistook , and they ... action of the play . Macbeth is in his moral being quite unlike Claudius ; and he produces a different action and a ...
... action in Hamlet . In such a nonconducting atmosphere , all purposes are short , hidden , and mistook , and they ... action of the play . Macbeth is in his moral being quite unlike Claudius ; and he produces a different action and a ...
Page 439
... action was possible ; and if no alternative action was in this sense possible for him , it seems unreasonable to allow a sense to saying that he could have acted otherwise if he had chosen . There- fore , as our psychological and ...
... action was possible ; and if no alternative action was in this sense possible for him , it seems unreasonable to allow a sense to saying that he could have acted otherwise if he had chosen . There- fore , as our psychological and ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
Sophocles | 78 |
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The Proper Study: Essays on Western Classics Quentin Anderson,Joseph Anthony Mazzeo No preview available - 1962 |
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