Literary EssaysA companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of Strachey's finest critical essays, "Shakespeare's Final Period" and "English Letter Writers." Index. |
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... interest , and that it may happen - as in Antony and Cleopatra , for instance — that the very essence of this interest lies in the accumulation of an immense variety of local activities and the representation of long epochs of time ...
... interest , and that it may happen - as in Antony and Cleopatra , for instance — that the very essence of this interest lies in the accumulation of an immense variety of local activities and the representation of long epochs of time ...
Page 108
... interest in the dramas of Voltaire is solely an antiquarian interest . At the present moment , 1 a literal translation of King Lear is drawing full houses at the Théâtre Antoine . As a rule it is rash to prophesy ; but , if that rule ...
... interest in the dramas of Voltaire is solely an antiquarian interest . At the present moment , 1 a literal translation of King Lear is drawing full houses at the Théâtre Antoine . As a rule it is rash to prophesy ; but , if that rule ...
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... interest took possession of him - an interest which worked havoc with his dreams of dramatic authorship and scientific research : he became involved in the revolutionary movement which was at that time beginning to agitate Europe . The ...
... interest took possession of him - an interest which worked havoc with his dreams of dramatic authorship and scientific research : he became involved in the revolutionary movement which was at that time beginning to agitate Europe . The ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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