Shakespeare's Repentance Plays: The Search for an Adequate FormFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1972 - 127 páginas Follows the treatment of repentance in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest to show the relationship of theme and form, and the dramatist's experimentation with forms until he accomplished his goal--the probing psychological exploration of men who sin, repent, and achieve redemption. |
Contenido
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Repentance in Shakespeares Complication | 17 |
Shakespeares First | 36 |
Pericles and Cymbeline as Elizabethan | 61 |
The Achievement of | 91 |
An Epilogue | 114 |
Bibliography | 123 |
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Shakespeare's Repentance Plays: The Search for an Adequate Form Alan R. Velie Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
Términos y frases comunes
action All's Alonso Angelo Antigonus Antigonus's Antonio argues Ariel audience bear behavior Bertram bloody brother Caliban Camillo Christian Cinthio's Claudio Cloten Comedy of Forgiveness comic complication comedy contrition Cymbeline death Dionyza dramatic form Duke E. K. Chambers Elizabethan Epitia evil Felismena fornication Gentlemen Gentlemen of Verona girl Girondo God's grace guilty happy ending Helena Hermione hero heroines Homily Homily Of Repentance Hunter husband Iachimo Imogen intrigue Isabella jealousy Jupiter Juriste justice kill King Knight lechery Leontes London lovers Mamillius Marina marry Measure for Measure melodrama mercy moral choice murder Pandosto pardon penance Perdita Pericles Philaster Pisanio Plautus Polixenes Posthumus Posthumus's Problem Comedies Promos and Cassandra Prospero protagonist Proteus Proteus's repentance plays romance ruler scene serious theme serious treatment Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's Problem Silvia sinner sins sloth speare stereotyped story sympathetic characters tance tells Tempest Timbreo traditional tragedies tragicomedies trick Valentine villains Whetstone wife Winter's Tale
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Página 45 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Página 46 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Página 52 - O my dread lord, I should be guiltier than my guiltiness, To think I can be undiscernible, When I perceive, your grace, like power divine, Hath look'd upon my passes : Then, good prince, No longer session hold upoVi my shame, But let my trial be mine own confession ; Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, Is all the grace I beg.
Página 62 - A tragi-comedy is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy...
Página 38 - tis a lost fear; Man but a rush against Othello's breast, And he retires; — Where should Othello go?— Now, how dost thou look now ? O ill-starr'd wench ! Pale as thy smock ! when we shall meet at compt, This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it.
Página 95 - Hermione is chaste, Polixenes blameless, Camillo a true subject, Leontes a jealous tyrant, his innocent babe truly begotten ; and the king shall live •without an heir, if that, which is lost, be not found.
Página 47 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 27 - There is not that good which concerneth us, but it hath evidence enough for itself, if Reason were diligent to search it out. Through neglect thereof, abused we are with the show of that which is not ; sometimes the subtility of Satan inveigling us as it did Eve...
Página 45 - He who the sword of heaven will bear, Should be as holy as severe ; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go ; More nor less to others paying, Than by self-offences weighing.
Página 86 - He shall be lord of lady Imogen, And happier much by his affliction made.