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... Elizabethan Drama was not a philo- sophy , a moral system , a social doctrine , but it took the place of them because it was , above all , dramatic art . Or rather , it acted as a catalyst , transmuting the substance — thought or ...
... Elizabethan Drama was not a philo- sophy , a moral system , a social doctrine , but it took the place of them because it was , above all , dramatic art . Or rather , it acted as a catalyst , transmuting the substance — thought or ...
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... Elizabethan ' barbarians ' were not , indeed , guiltless of far - fetched , precious and extrava- gant turns of phrase - in a word , of conventions : I shall come back to this point - but what was natural to them was just this continual ...
... Elizabethan ' barbarians ' were not , indeed , guiltless of far - fetched , precious and extrava- gant turns of phrase - in a word , of conventions : I shall come back to this point - but what was natural to them was just this continual ...
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... Elizabethan public was not deaf to these voices which made it vibrate in its turn , even if the language is difficult or ' barbarous ' . So there is , I believe , a quality in this public , as there is a quality in the language and a ...
... Elizabethan public was not deaf to these voices which made it vibrate in its turn , even if the language is difficult or ' barbarous ' . So there is , I believe , a quality in this public , as there is a quality in the language and a ...
Contents
PART TWO TECHNIQUE | 77 |
THE CHARACTERS | 129 |
PART THREE THE THEMES | 187 |
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action ambition Antony Antony and Cleopatra attitude beauty bethan blood characters classical Cleopatra comedy complete conventions Coriolanus Cressida crime critical death despair destiny disorder dramatist Duchess of Malfi effects emotion English evil experience expression faith fate fear feeling French ghosts give Hamlet hatred heart Henry hero honour human images imagination irony Jacobean King Lear L. C. Knights Lady Macbeth language logic lyrical Machiavelli madness Marlowe Marlowe's meaning Measure for Measure merely metaphor metaphysical mind moral murder nature night Othello passion personages pity play plot poet poetic poetry political Prince problem realism reality reason revenge rhetoric rhythm Richard Richard III romantic scene Seneca Shakespeare soul speech spirit stage style supreme symbolical T. S. Eliot takes Tamburlaine theatre themes thought Timon Timon of Athens tion tone tragedy tragic triumph Troilus Troilus and Cressida unity universe verse virtue whole Wilson Knight words