The Olive and the Sword: A Study of England's Shakespeare |
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... hero starting as a peasant , conquering nation after nation in scene after scene , and ending as all but master of the world . His aspiring pride rises in rhetoric of ringing , resound- ing , clanging magnificence . City after city ...
... hero starting as a peasant , conquering nation after nation in scene after scene , and ending as all but master of the world . His aspiring pride rises in rhetoric of ringing , resound- ing , clanging magnificence . City after city ...
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... hero of sensitive temperament , who learns from a Ghost that his father's untimely end has been caused by the treacherous act of his own uncle , now king . Hamlet's world is henceforth darkened , and society , to him , diseased . Honour ...
... hero of sensitive temperament , who learns from a Ghost that his father's untimely end has been caused by the treacherous act of his own uncle , now king . Hamlet's world is henceforth darkened , and society , to him , diseased . Honour ...
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... Hero after hero in Shakespeare works through inward conflict to self - recognition : Katharine the Shrew , Benedick and Beatrice , Richard II , all the great tragic heroes , Cleopatra who is noble to ' herself ' in her dying , Leontes ...
... Hero after hero in Shakespeare works through inward conflict to self - recognition : Katharine the Shrew , Benedick and Beatrice , Richard II , all the great tragic heroes , Cleopatra who is noble to ' herself ' in her dying , Leontes ...
Contents
OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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