The Merchant of VeniceThe University Press, 1931 - 200 pages |
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Page 177
... SCENE ( 1 ) The signal feature of this scene , one of the most en- thralling in all dramatic literature- -a scene which when acted holds the audience breathless - is the encounter of the two great characters of the play . It is a duel ...
... SCENE ( 1 ) The signal feature of this scene , one of the most en- thralling in all dramatic literature- -a scene which when acted holds the audience breathless - is the encounter of the two great characters of the play . It is a duel ...
Page 189
... scene . When the scenery1 was not changed , or the ar- rangements were so defective that the change was not easily perceptible , it was , perhaps , additionally desirable to mark that a scene was finished . " And just as rhyme often ...
... scene . When the scenery1 was not changed , or the ar- rangements were so defective that the change was not easily perceptible , it was , perhaps , additionally desirable to mark that a scene was finished . " And just as rhyme often ...
Page 191
... scenes of " low life , " especially if comic , such as the Grave - diggers ' scene in Hamlet ( v . 1 ) . In The Tempest Stephano and Trinculo always converse in prose , while Caliban ( a poetical character ) speaks wholly in verse . So ...
... scenes of " low life , " especially if comic , such as the Grave - diggers ' scene in Hamlet ( v . 1 ) . In The Tempest Stephano and Trinculo always converse in prose , while Caliban ( a poetical character ) speaks wholly in verse . So ...
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