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... moral conscience . From these clashes the action results . We say the character is alive inasmuch as the clash in his conscience takes precedence and conditions the action . No one before Marlowe had dared to throw off the moral law or ...
... moral conscience . From these clashes the action results . We say the character is alive inasmuch as the clash in his conscience takes precedence and conditions the action . No one before Marlowe had dared to throw off the moral law or ...
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... moral . This was the aim of the Morality play ; it is also , on a larger scale of edification , the aim of comedy or drama . Dramatic art is not a mere function of entertainment : its example , its advice , its ' message ' have to be ...
... moral . This was the aim of the Morality play ; it is also , on a larger scale of edification , the aim of comedy or drama . Dramatic art is not a mere function of entertainment : its example , its advice , its ' message ' have to be ...
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... moral crisis of despair . This tragedy , which brings on the stage living people whose greatness does not depend on their symbolical function ( even Iago is too strongly individual- ized to pass for a mere symbol of the traditional ...
... moral crisis of despair . This tragedy , which brings on the stage living people whose greatness does not depend on their symbolical function ( even Iago is too strongly individual- ized to pass for a mere symbol of the traditional ...
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