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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... obvious attribute . There is some reason to believe that , after the first production of the play , Shakespeare decided to accentuate this note still further . At one of the supreme moments of Othello's tragedy - when he finally ...
... obvious attribute . There is some reason to believe that , after the first production of the play , Shakespeare decided to accentuate this note still further . At one of the supreme moments of Othello's tragedy - when he finally ...
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... obvious that , with such scanty and unexciting materials , no biographer can say very much about what Sir Thomas Browne did ; it is quite easy , however , to expatiate about what he wrote . He dug deeply into so many subjects , he ...
... obvious that , with such scanty and unexciting materials , no biographer can say very much about what Sir Thomas Browne did ; it is quite easy , however , to expatiate about what he wrote . He dug deeply into so many subjects , he ...
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... obvious . A true child of his age , he had a profound distrust , amounting at times to an actual hatred , of art ... obvious , and the strength , suitably enough , is obvious too . History is primarily a narrative , and in power of ...
... obvious . A true child of his age , he had a profound distrust , amounting at times to an actual hatred , of art ... obvious , and the strength , suitably enough , is obvious too . History is primarily a narrative , and in power of ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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