Studies of Shakespeare in the Plays of King John, Cymbeline, Macbeth, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet: With Observations on the Criticism and the Acting of Those Plays |
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... hands of the same fashionable critics of the day . No wonder that they performed the latter task in strict accordance with the spirit in which they exe- cuted the former . No wonder that the actors , and the actresses , remained the ...
... hands of the same fashionable critics of the day . No wonder that they performed the latter task in strict accordance with the spirit in which they exe- cuted the former . No wonder that the actors , and the actresses , remained the ...
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... hand , -for this reason chiefly it is - this greater preparation which the wide circulation of Mrs. Jameson's Characteristics ' has given to the public mind for the study of Shakespeare's women , has beyond what has hitherto reached it ...
... hand , -for this reason chiefly it is - this greater preparation which the wide circulation of Mrs. Jameson's Characteristics ' has given to the public mind for the study of Shakespeare's women , has beyond what has hitherto reached it ...
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... observe , that the heroine cannot , from her intellectual resources , " borrow patience to submit , or fortitude to endure . " But , all feeling apart , what , we would ask , betrayed on every hand 18 KING JOHN . ' FEMALE CHARACTERS IN "
... observe , that the heroine cannot , from her intellectual resources , " borrow patience to submit , or fortitude to endure . " But , all feeling apart , what , we would ask , betrayed on every hand 18 KING JOHN . ' FEMALE CHARACTERS IN "
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... hand to play with the ringlets of her boy as he stands drooping over her . We must speak rather more at large of Miss Fau- cit's acting in the following scene , the most difficult of all in so difficult a part . Undoubtedly , the dra ...
... hand to play with the ringlets of her boy as he stands drooping over her . We must speak rather more at large of Miss Fau- cit's acting in the following scene , the most difficult of all in so difficult a part . Undoubtedly , the dra ...
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... hands to heaven in the majestic appeal- Arm , arm , you heavens , against these perjur'd kings , & c . It is this exaltation of the figure -this aspiring heavenward of the whole look , and tone , and gesture -that gives , and can alone ...
... hands to heaven in the majestic appeal- Arm , arm , you heavens , against these perjur'd kings , & c . It is this exaltation of the figure -this aspiring heavenward of the whole look , and tone , and gesture -that gives , and can alone ...
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