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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... rest of it should be read ; last thoughts do appear in some strange way to be really best and truest ; and this is particularly the case when they fit in nicely with the rest of the story , and are , perhaps , just what one likes to ...
... rest of it should be read ; last thoughts do appear in some strange way to be really best and truest ; and this is particularly the case when they fit in nicely with the rest of the story , and are , perhaps , just what one likes to ...
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... rest , were never dull for a moment . The words , devised with the supreme skill of Shakespeare's early maturity , required the minimum of acting ; all that was needed was their straightforward enuncia- tion by living human beings on a ...
... rest , were never dull for a moment . The words , devised with the supreme skill of Shakespeare's early maturity , required the minimum of acting ; all that was needed was their straightforward enuncia- tion by living human beings on a ...
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... rest of the world , there is more reason in my behaviour than there seems . . . . It would be ridiculous to talk so much of myself , and to enter into such trifling details , but you are the person in the world that I wish to convince ...
... rest of the world , there is more reason in my behaviour than there seems . . . . It would be ridiculous to talk so much of myself , and to enter into such trifling details , but you are the person in the world that I wish to convince ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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