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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Page xvii
... instance after another , the best- reputed expositors of Shakespeare have de- livered interpretations of his principal meaning in a particular drama , and of his conception of its leading characters , which it is impossible that they ...
... instance after another , the best- reputed expositors of Shakespeare have de- livered interpretations of his principal meaning in a particular drama , and of his conception of its leading characters , which it is impossible that they ...
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... instance , a ready solution of this problem , in the fact that these critics themselves have ever come to the consideration of Shakespeare's text , uncon- sciously prepossessed by the perverted stage impressions of their youth , or by ...
... instance , a ready solution of this problem , in the fact that these critics themselves have ever come to the consideration of Shakespeare's text , uncon- sciously prepossessed by the perverted stage impressions of their youth , or by ...
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... instance of the great degree in which the dignity and prosperity of a national theatre , at any given period , may depend on the taste and genius of a single actor , especially when that actor becomes a leading manager also . In the ...
... instance of the great degree in which the dignity and prosperity of a national theatre , at any given period , may depend on the taste and genius of a single actor , especially when that actor becomes a leading manager also . In the ...
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... instance , from the most elevated point of view . Nevertheless , Mrs. Jameson's work contains much agreeable and some original remark ; and gives a more systematic and complete account of Shakespeare's female characters , than Hazlitt's ...
... instance , from the most elevated point of view . Nevertheless , Mrs. Jameson's work contains much agreeable and some original remark ; and gives a more systematic and complete account of Shakespeare's female characters , than Hazlitt's ...
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... instance , we beheld the same young per- former who , the very evening before , had shaken us with the passionate ... instances in which it shall appear to us that either the deceased or the living critic has formed an erroneous or im ...
... instance , we beheld the same young per- former who , the very evening before , had shaken us with the passionate ... instances in which it shall appear to us that either the deceased or the living critic has formed an erroneous or im ...
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