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fictional character less popular than the young Count of Rossillion . Yet Helena has come in for her share of criticism too . She is forward , obstinate , manipulative , opportunistic . She does not heal the king out of patriotic ...
fictional character less popular than the young Count of Rossillion . Yet Helena has come in for her share of criticism too . She is forward , obstinate , manipulative , opportunistic . She does not heal the king out of patriotic ...
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The king also takes care to state Helena's fitness to be Bertram's wife : She is young , wise , fair ; In these to nature she's immediate heir , And these breed honour . That is honour's scorn , Which challenges itself as honour's born ...
The king also takes care to state Helena's fitness to be Bertram's wife : She is young , wise , fair ; In these to nature she's immediate heir , And these breed honour . That is honour's scorn , Which challenges itself as honour's born ...
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Machiavellian world of young Bertram . The thrust of the play is therefore to show two ideologies in conflict and the lack of clear cut resolution at the end only reinforces the sense of crisis and tension within the aristocratic world ...
Machiavellian world of young Bertram . The thrust of the play is therefore to show two ideologies in conflict and the lack of clear cut resolution at the end only reinforces the sense of crisis and tension within the aristocratic world ...
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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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