Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 13Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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... tragedy is as important as their difficulty with epic . Furthermore , if Milton's achievement with epic over- whelmed the Romantics ' desire to write in that form , sure- ly Shakespeare's tragedies provided a similar impediment to their ...
... tragedy is as important as their difficulty with epic . Furthermore , if Milton's achievement with epic over- whelmed the Romantics ' desire to write in that form , sure- ly Shakespeare's tragedies provided a similar impediment to their ...
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... tragedy irrational behavior results from " an interference with human life by nonhuman agencies which put something into a man and thereby influence his thought and conduct . " " For Dodds also this assigning of the causation of mental ...
... tragedy irrational behavior results from " an interference with human life by nonhuman agencies which put something into a man and thereby influence his thought and conduct . " " For Dodds also this assigning of the causation of mental ...
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... tragedy , in short , tends to be even darker , more terrifying than classical tragedy , though the suffering en- dured by the modern hero is not necessarily greater . The darkness of modern tragedy stems largely from questions about the ...
... tragedy , in short , tends to be even darker , more terrifying than classical tragedy , though the suffering en- dured by the modern hero is not necessarily greater . The darkness of modern tragedy stems largely from questions about the ...
Contents
Camille Wells Slights The Raw and the Cooked in The Taming of the Shrew | 11 |
A Reading of The Two Gentlemen | 18 |
Festive Theory | 36 |
Copyright | |
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