ShakspereMacmillan, 1893 - 167 pages |
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... DRAMA CHAPTER II . CHAPTER III . 5 13 EARLY EDITIONS OF SHAKSPERE'S WRITINGS 30 CHAPTER IV . EVIDENCE OF THE CHRONOLOGY OF WRITINGS SHAKSPERE'S • 32 CHAPTER V. · 47 PERIODS OF SHAKSPERE'S CAREER : GROUPS AND DATES OF PLAYS CHAPTER VI ...
... DRAMA CHAPTER II . CHAPTER III . 5 13 EARLY EDITIONS OF SHAKSPERE'S WRITINGS 30 CHAPTER IV . EVIDENCE OF THE CHRONOLOGY OF WRITINGS SHAKSPERE'S • 32 CHAPTER V. · 47 PERIODS OF SHAKSPERE'S CAREER : GROUPS AND DATES OF PLAYS CHAPTER VI ...
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... DRAMA . 1. England in Shakspere's Youth . - In the closing years of the sixteenth century the life of England ran high . The revival of learning had enriched the national mind with a store of new ideas and images ; the reformation of ...
... DRAMA . 1. England in Shakspere's Youth . - In the closing years of the sixteenth century the life of England ran high . The revival of learning had enriched the national mind with a store of new ideas and images ; the reformation of ...
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... drama . In the drama they saw men and women , alive , in action , in suffering , changing for ever from mood to mood , from attitude to attitude ; they saw these men and women solitary , conversing with their own hearts - in pairs and ...
... drama . In the drama they saw men and women , alive , in action , in suffering , changing for ever from mood to mood , from attitude to attitude ; they saw these men and women solitary , conversing with their own hearts - in pairs and ...
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... dramatic poet . Above all , much was due to Christopher Marlowe . His genius was essentially of a tragic cast ; from his veins the life - blood of passion had flowed into the drama of England , and forthwith it lost its timidity , and ...
... dramatic poet . Above all , much was due to Christopher Marlowe . His genius was essentially of a tragic cast ; from his veins the life - blood of passion had flowed into the drama of England , and forthwith it lost its timidity , and ...
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... side , Mount Olympus , any place in fact which was supposed to be separated from and above the scene of the main action . " Here Juliet appeared to Romeo , and probably here the play - king and play - A 3 I. ] 9 THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA .
... side , Mount Olympus , any place in fact which was supposed to be separated from and above the scene of the main action . " Here Juliet appeared to Romeo , and probably here the play - king and play - A 3 I. ] 9 THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA .
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