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They mean mischief, and the ladies have reason to fear. “Pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!” one of them cries, waking from nightmare. Tragedy is potential in the psychology the play develops, and the moon looks down with a ...
They mean mischief, and the ladies have reason to fear. “Pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!” one of them cries, waking from nightmare. Tragedy is potential in the psychology the play develops, and the moon looks down with a ...
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The antagonists in this struggle have their illustrious or notorious seconds: reason, on the side of good, throwing a light on the course we should follow, against it “rude will” or passion, properly subordinate but always seeking first ...
The antagonists in this struggle have their illustrious or notorious seconds: reason, on the side of good, throwing a light on the course we should follow, against it “rude will” or passion, properly subordinate but always seeking first ...
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Eno- barbus answers: “Antony only, that would make his will Lord of his reason” (3.3). But sometimes no one is to blame and tragedy happens, or perhaps men and women are too slight for tragedy and the play begets laughter, not tears.
Eno- barbus answers: “Antony only, that would make his will Lord of his reason” (3.3). But sometimes no one is to blame and tragedy happens, or perhaps men and women are too slight for tragedy and the play begets laughter, not tears.
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Worse, “reason panders will” (Hamlet 3.4), going over to the enemy. That is skeptical Shakespeare's reading of human nature. He isn't cynical, only skeptical, but he is skeptical to the core. now it is clear how we know the play's ...
Worse, “reason panders will” (Hamlet 3.4), going over to the enemy. That is skeptical Shakespeare's reading of human nature. He isn't cynical, only skeptical, but he is skeptical to the core. now it is clear how we know the play's ...
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We are an amalgam, mind and matter, reason and will, and the monster is part of us, indelibly that. Also he is useful, like the brawn to the brain that commands it. The comic villain in All's Well, a moral nullity but a survivor ...
We are an amalgam, mind and matter, reason and will, and the monster is part of us, indelibly that. Also he is useful, like the brawn to the brain that commands it. The comic villain in All's Well, a moral nullity but a survivor ...
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Contents
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25 | |
Shadows of Himself | 79 |
WildGoose Chase | 107 |
A Motley to the View | 136 |
For Ted and Lloyd St Antoine | 155 |
The Dyers Hand | 163 |
Index | 195 |
Sailing to Illyria 65 | 65 |
Fools of Nature 101 | 101 |
PR2894 F65 2007 | 106 |
Treason in the Blood 134 | 134 |
The Wine of Life 160 | 160 |
Bravest at the Last 188 | 188 |
Unpathed Waters Undreamed Shores | 217 |
Journeys End | 247 |
Includes bibliographical references and index | 1 |
The Revolution of the Times 34 | 34 |
Index | 281 |
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