The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 1C. and A. Conrad & Company, 1809 |
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Page 120
... tragedies to - day , and comedies to - morrow . Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dig- nity or elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous conclusion , with which the common criticism of that age was sa ...
... tragedies to - day , and comedies to - morrow . Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dig- nity or elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous conclusion , with which the common criticism of that age was sa ...
Page 121
... tragedy for the greater part by incident and action . His tragedy seems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . * The force of his comick scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half , in manners ...
... tragedy for the greater part by incident and action . His tragedy seems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . * The force of his comick scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half , in manners ...
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... Tragedy of Coriolanus . [ a . ] Titus Andronicus . * [ a . ] Romeo and Juliet . * Timon of Athens . The Life and death of Julius Cæ- sar . [ a . ] The Tragedy of Macbeth . [ a & s . ] The Tragedy of Hamlet . King Lear . [ a & s ...
... Tragedy of Coriolanus . [ a . ] Titus Andronicus . * [ a . ] Romeo and Juliet . * Timon of Athens . The Life and death of Julius Cæ- sar . [ a . ] The Tragedy of Macbeth . [ a & s . ] The Tragedy of Hamlet . King Lear . [ a & s ...
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