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Because his genius found its most complete expression in pure comedy his last play is generally acknowledged to be his masterpiece . Love for Love is a great improvement over the first two comedies . Its buoyant tone and broadly ...
Because his genius found its most complete expression in pure comedy his last play is generally acknowledged to be his masterpiece . Love for Love is a great improvement over the first two comedies . Its buoyant tone and broadly ...
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The sole love interest in the play was thwarted by the central problem of its hero Brutus , and throughout it suffered self - effacement before the larger motives of honor and patriotism . Roswell G. Ham Otway and Lee ( New Haven : Yale ...
The sole love interest in the play was thwarted by the central problem of its hero Brutus , and throughout it suffered self - effacement before the larger motives of honor and patriotism . Roswell G. Ham Otway and Lee ( New Haven : Yale ...
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Far from being an instrument on which Wycherley plays his harsh misanthropic music , Manly is a recognizable comic type ... The large element of farce in the play and the contrived situations are hardly conducive to the best comic wit ...
Far from being an instrument on which Wycherley plays his harsh misanthropic music , Manly is a recognizable comic type ... The large element of farce in the play and the contrived situations are hardly conducive to the best comic wit ...
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