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... Elizabethan , working so consistently according to the methods of his age and country that , as we know , he passed ' unguessed at ' among his contemporaries . But what were these methods and this convention ? To judge of them properly ...
... Elizabethan , working so consistently according to the methods of his age and country that , as we know , he passed ' unguessed at ' among his contemporaries . But what were these methods and this convention ? To judge of them properly ...
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Lytton Strachey. at the average play of an ordinary Elizabethan play- wright , or even at one of the lesser works of Shake- speare himself . And , if we look here , it will become apparent that the dramatic tradition of the Elizabethan ...
Lytton Strachey. at the average play of an ordinary Elizabethan play- wright , or even at one of the lesser works of Shake- speare himself . And , if we look here , it will become apparent that the dramatic tradition of the Elizabethan ...
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... Elizabethan age . Racine's principles were , in fact , the direct opposite of these . ' Comprehension ' might be taken as the watchword of the Elizabethans ; Racine's was ' concentration ' . His great aim was to produce , not an ...
... Elizabethan age . Racine's principles were , in fact , the direct opposite of these . ' Comprehension ' might be taken as the watchword of the Elizabethans ; Racine's was ' concentration ' . His great aim was to produce , not an ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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