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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... persons that haunt it - though most of them are hardly more than children , and some of them are fairies , and all of them are too agreeable to be true — are never- theless substantial creatures , whose loves and jokes and quarrels ...
... persons that haunt it - though most of them are hardly more than children , and some of them are fairies , and all of them are too agreeable to be true — are never- theless substantial creatures , whose loves and jokes and quarrels ...
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... persons who , with the exception of the Venetian lady , Disdemona , are not even named , are furnished with a few crude and obvious qualities , and then set off into action . The Moor , we are told , was ' molto valoroso , ' he was ...
... persons who , with the exception of the Venetian lady , Disdemona , are not even named , are furnished with a few crude and obvious qualities , and then set off into action . The Moor , we are told , was ' molto valoroso , ' he was ...
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... persons of the drama may have a place to meet in and make their speeches . The ' three unities ' and the rest of the ' rules ' are a burden which the English reader finds himself quite unaccustomed to carry ; he grows impatient of them ...
... persons of the drama may have a place to meet in and make their speeches . The ' three unities ' and the rest of the ' rules ' are a burden which the English reader finds himself quite unaccustomed to carry ; he grows impatient of them ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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