Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and ArtC. Kegan Paul, 1877 - 434 pages |
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Page v
... tragedies of thought rather than of passion ; both present in their chief characters , the spectacle of noble natures which fail through some weakness or deficiency rather than through crime ; upon Brutus as upon Hamlet a burden is laid ...
... tragedies of thought rather than of passion ; both present in their chief characters , the spectacle of noble natures which fail through some weakness or deficiency rather than through crime ; upon Brutus as upon Hamlet a burden is laid ...
Page vi
... tragedies , or while he was writing them , he continued to write comedy . But the genial spirit of comedy was deserting him . " Twelfth Night " resumes all the admirable humorous . characteristics of the group of comedies which it ...
... tragedies , or while he was writing them , he continued to write comedy . But the genial spirit of comedy was deserting him . " Twelfth Night " resumes all the admirable humorous . characteristics of the group of comedies which it ...
Page vii
... Tragedies ; this led to the cancelling of a leaf , and the filling up of a blank space left by the alteration , with the . Prologue to Troilus and Cressida a prologue which is believed by several critics not to have come from ...
... Tragedies ; this led to the cancelling of a leaf , and the filling up of a blank space left by the alteration , with the . Prologue to Troilus and Cressida a prologue which is believed by several critics not to have come from ...
Page viii
... tragedies . " Let us call this then the comedy of disillusion , and certainly wherever we place it we must notice a striking resemblance in its spirit and structure to Timon of Athens . Timon has a lax bene- volence and shallow trust in ...
... tragedies . " Let us call this then the comedy of disillusion , and certainly wherever we place it we must notice a striking resemblance in its spirit and structure to Timon of Athens . Timon has a lax bene- volence and shallow trust in ...
Page ix
... Tragedy " after the third division of what I have named " Later Comedy ; " it will suffice if the reader bear in mind that as a fact the comedy over- laps the succeeding group of tragedies . " " 1. PRE - SHAKSPERIAN GROUP . ( Touched by ...
... Tragedy " after the third division of what I have named " Later Comedy ; " it will suffice if the reader bear in mind that as a fact the comedy over- laps the succeeding group of tragedies . " " 1. PRE - SHAKSPERIAN GROUP . ( Touched by ...
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