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... call the background of the Elizabethan Theatre has been carefully studied . The idea , of course , is not new , and many critics since Taine have exploited it . But the comments it calls for are made in the light of what is known of the ...
... call the background of the Elizabethan Theatre has been carefully studied . The idea , of course , is not new , and many critics since Taine have exploited it . But the comments it calls for are made in the light of what is known of the ...
Page 149
... calls up a legendary Minotaur - nothing exists save on canvas or on the stage or in our imagination . Ecstasy is to be perceived only in a face deformed by grief or by laughter . The strange denizens of this elusive world of ours create ...
... calls up a legendary Minotaur - nothing exists save on canvas or on the stage or in our imagination . Ecstasy is to be perceived only in a face deformed by grief or by laughter . The strange denizens of this elusive world of ours create ...
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... calls it up , breaks it and pulverizes it at the risk of incoherence but greatly to poetry's gain . Margaret is a Lady Macbeth before Lady Macbeth's creation , as vigorous in temperament , of greater stature perhaps , but with a ...
... calls it up , breaks it and pulverizes it at the risk of incoherence but greatly to poetry's gain . Margaret is a Lady Macbeth before Lady Macbeth's creation , as vigorous in temperament , of greater stature perhaps , but with a ...
Contents
PART TWO TECHNIQUE | 77 |
THE CHARACTERS | 129 |
PART THREE THE THEMES | 187 |
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