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... comedy which Fletcher invented and defined . In tragedy people die ; in tragi - comedy they skirt death . This is both too much and not enough to say . For surely Measure for Measure is a tragedy even though no one dies in it , and ...
... comedy which Fletcher invented and defined . In tragedy people die ; in tragi - comedy they skirt death . This is both too much and not enough to say . For surely Measure for Measure is a tragedy even though no one dies in it , and ...
Page 60
... comedy that Beaumont and Fletcher score their successes . Here , indeed , no ambiguity is possible : we are in the fairy - tale world where credibility is no longer bound by the same conventions . I know ( and I shall return to this ...
... comedy that Beaumont and Fletcher score their successes . Here , indeed , no ambiguity is possible : we are in the fairy - tale world where credibility is no longer bound by the same conventions . I know ( and I shall return to this ...
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... comedy , so called ( as opposed to romantic comedy or tragi - comedy ) , in which it is commonly supposed that the characters talk the language of every day under pretext that it is familiar , racy or aggressive . The fact that it is ...
... comedy , so called ( as opposed to romantic comedy or tragi - comedy ) , in which it is commonly supposed that the characters talk the language of every day under pretext that it is familiar , racy or aggressive . The fact that it is ...
Contents
PART TWO TECHNIQUE | 77 |
THE CHARACTERS | 129 |
PART THREE THE THEMES | 187 |
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