Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 2Laurie Lanzen Harris Gale Research Company, 1984 - 591 pages This volume includes plot summaries, character profiles, criticism of the works and sources for further study. |
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... fall a tear over the successive fates of Buckingham , of Wolsey , of Katharine ; and for the sightseers there are the processions . No doubt the processions were conceived to meet a demand for spectacle , but they also have a simple ...
... fall a tear over the successive fates of Buckingham , of Wolsey , of Katharine ; and for the sightseers there are the processions . No doubt the processions were conceived to meet a demand for spectacle , but they also have a simple ...
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... fall , in accordance with contemporary Christian moral philos- ophy , and in a sense all the others are variants of it . The most curious of these is the arrested fall of Cranmer . This seems to me the only possible description of it ...
... fall , in accordance with contemporary Christian moral philos- ophy , and in a sense all the others are variants of it . The most curious of these is the arrested fall of Cranmer . This seems to me the only possible description of it ...
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... fall . Each of the falling characters of Shake- speare's last play leaves his trial , mounts the scafford , or faces ignominy and death with a new access of spiritual strength and self - knowledge . The falls they painfully endure turn ...
... fall . Each of the falling characters of Shake- speare's last play leaves his trial , mounts the scafford , or faces ignominy and death with a new access of spiritual strength and self - knowledge . The falls they painfully endure turn ...
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