The Round Table: Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Sons, 1960 - 366 pages |
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Page 280
... scene he afterwards affects melancholy , from pure satisfaction of heart , and professes reform , because it is the farthest thing in the world from his thoughts . He has no qualms of conscience , and therefore would as soon talk of ...
... scene he afterwards affects melancholy , from pure satisfaction of heart , and professes reform , because it is the farthest thing in the world from his thoughts . He has no qualms of conscience , and therefore would as soon talk of ...
Page 299
... scene with Lady Anne is an admirable exhibition of smooth and smiling villainy . The progress of wily adulation , of encroaching humility , is finely marked by his action , voice and eye . He seems , like the first Tempter , to approach ...
... scene with Lady Anne is an admirable exhibition of smooth and smiling villainy . The progress of wily adulation , of encroaching humility , is finely marked by his action , voice and eye . He seems , like the first Tempter , to approach ...
Page 300
... scene in Macbeth , in Richard 11. , in Sir Giles Overreach , and lastly in Oroonoko ; but we still like to look back to his first performance of this part , both because it first assured his admirers of his future success , and because ...
... scene in Macbeth , in Richard 11. , in Sir Giles Overreach , and lastly in Oroonoko ; but we still like to look back to his first performance of this part , both because it first assured his admirers of his future success , and because ...
Contents
On the Love of Life | 1 |
On Modern Comedy | 7 |
On Mr Keans Iago | 14 |
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