Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama"A critical inquiry into the condition of the English drama" -- Preface. |
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... less than the meanest ; as though their work , surveyed in its entirety , were not obedient to some spirit , regulating and determining each portion of the whole . We are bound to discover links of connection between man and man ...
... less than the meanest ; as though their work , surveyed in its entirety , were not obedient to some spirit , regulating and determining each portion of the whole . We are bound to discover links of connection between man and man ...
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... less com- plete although more complicated , in a series and a company of persons . The former aims at demonstrating the unity of one man's work , subject to influences which make or mar it ; the latter exhibits the unity of a work ...
... less com- plete although more complicated , in a series and a company of persons . The former aims at demonstrating the unity of one man's work , subject to influences which make or mar it ; the latter exhibits the unity of a work ...
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... less in the parts than in the mass , less in particular achievements than in the spirit which sustains and animates the whole . It is the volume and variety of this dramatic literature , poured forth with almost incoherent volubility by ...
... less in the parts than in the mass , less in particular achievements than in the spirit which sustains and animates the whole . It is the volume and variety of this dramatic literature , poured forth with almost incoherent volubility by ...
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... less than his successors , exist for him ; that without him English dramatic art would be but second rate ; that he is the keystone of the arch , the justifier and interpreter of his time's striving impulses . The forms he employs are ...
... less than his successors , exist for him ; that without him English dramatic art would be but second rate ; that he is the keystone of the arch , the justifier and interpreter of his time's striving impulses . The forms he employs are ...
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... less manifest that Shakspere did not stand alone , without support and without lineage . He and his fellow playwrights are interdependent , mutually illustra- tive ; and their aggregated performance is the expression of a nation's ...
... less manifest that Shakspere did not stand alone , without support and without lineage . He and his fellow playwrights are interdependent , mutually illustra- tive ; and their aggregated performance is the expression of a nation's ...
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