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... tragedy . Reflecting as I walked down the hill on what I had seen , and upon the failure of the actors and actresses to convey that intensity peculiar to char- acters whose wills are irrevocably set in one direc- tion , without whom tragedy ...
... tragedy . Reflecting as I walked down the hill on what I had seen , and upon the failure of the actors and actresses to convey that intensity peculiar to char- acters whose wills are irrevocably set in one direc- tion , without whom tragedy ...
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Desmond MacCarthy. tragedy and why it should delight men ; this famous " purging of the emotions " through the spectacle of suffering what is meant by it ? Art enables us to focus our dumb emotions , and by so doing relieves them . Tragedy ...
Desmond MacCarthy. tragedy and why it should delight men ; this famous " purging of the emotions " through the spectacle of suffering what is meant by it ? Art enables us to focus our dumb emotions , and by so doing relieves them . Tragedy ...
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... tragedy will be before you ; for it is a true tragedy , lying in the persons themselves , in their passions and minds , and not in the external coincidences . First , then , Elena . She has already played her stake . In the professor ...
... tragedy will be before you ; for it is a true tragedy , lying in the persons themselves , in their passions and minds , and not in the external coincidences . First , then , Elena . She has already played her stake . In the professor ...
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SHAKESPEARE | 5 |
SHYLOCKS PAST AND PRESENT January 24th | 15 |
Othello May 7th 1921 | 21 |
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