With the Wits: Shelburne Essays, Tenth SeriesHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 311 páginas |
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... drama , which , with all its sins of omission and commission , is still the most extraordinary , if not the greatest , achievement of English litera- ture . The earlier Elizabethan tragedies had as a rule ( not invariably ) been based ...
... drama , which , with all its sins of omission and commission , is still the most extraordinary , if not the greatest , achievement of English litera- ture . The earlier Elizabethan tragedies had as a rule ( not invariably ) been based ...
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... drama.1 Its influence , direct and indirect , from that day to this has been incalcu- lable . The possible beauty of this new form of drama is familiar to us from The Winter's Tale and Cym- beline , if not from the work of other writers ...
... drama.1 Its influence , direct and indirect , from that day to this has been incalcu- lable . The possible beauty of this new form of drama is familiar to us from The Winter's Tale and Cym- beline , if not from the work of other writers ...
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... drama , was so bold or , if you will , so insolent , as to enlarge the censure of these faults into virulent abuse of the whole Elizabethan stage . There is an offensive undertone of buffoonery in old Thomas Rymer's diatribe against The ...
... drama , was so bold or , if you will , so insolent , as to enlarge the censure of these faults into virulent abuse of the whole Elizabethan stage . There is an offensive undertone of buffoonery in old Thomas Rymer's diatribe against The ...
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... drama- tist have forgotten her first confession to Amintor , the reader certainly has not . Nor can the reader quite stomach her next mood of sudden and over- whelming love for Amintor ( 1v , i ) , however deep her aversion to the King ...
... drama- tist have forgotten her first confession to Amintor , the reader certainly has not . Nor can the reader quite stomach her next mood of sudden and over- whelming love for Amintor ( 1v , i ) , however deep her aversion to the King ...
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... drama in the same way . To the dramatist in his abuse of passions as the occasion of the plot permits or drives him , we are tempted to apply the words of Rowley in All's Lost by Lust : Time's ancient bawd , opportunity , Attends us now ...
... drama in the same way . To the dramatist in his abuse of passions as the occasion of the plot permits or drives him , we are tempted to apply the words of Rowley in All's Lost by Lust : Time's ancient bawd , opportunity , Attends us now ...
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