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( I.1.52 , 58-65 ) By the same token we recall the words of the widowed Countess , as the play opens with the dispatching of Bertram to Paris : ' In delivering my son from me ' , says the Countess , ' I bury ...
( I.1.52 , 58-65 ) By the same token we recall the words of the widowed Countess , as the play opens with the dispatching of Bertram to Paris : ' In delivering my son from me ' , says the Countess , ' I bury ...
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The Countess can be her mother only metaphorically . Certainly the semantic absurdity does not escape the Countess , who , as we have seen , uses it to drive home her advantage . crystallizes finally upon what is evidently the dominant ...
The Countess can be her mother only metaphorically . Certainly the semantic absurdity does not escape the Countess , who , as we have seen , uses it to drive home her advantage . crystallizes finally upon what is evidently the dominant ...
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Although Helena is a ward of the Countess , it is obvious that the countess extends to her the love of a mother for a child : " you ne'er oppressed me with a mother's groan , " she tells Helena , " yet I express to you a mother's care ...
Although Helena is a ward of the Countess , it is obvious that the countess extends to her the love of a mother for a child : " you ne'er oppressed me with a mother's groan , " she tells Helena , " yet I express to you a mother's care ...
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| Title | Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 63 Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Gale Research Company |
| Contributor | Gale Research Company |
| Publisher | Gale Research Company, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0787652385, 9780787652388 |
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