Literary Essays25 essays from the Victorian and Edwardian literary critic. |
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... tragedy comes , not with the knowledge of a fact , but with the realisation of a delusion . The crescendo , this time , is one of false discovery ; but in both cases the essence of the drama lies in a mental pro- gression on the part of ...
... tragedy comes , not with the knowledge of a fact , but with the realisation of a delusion . The crescendo , this time , is one of false discovery ; but in both cases the essence of the drama lies in a mental pro- gression on the part of ...
Page 29
... tragedy would have been brought about by a motive not only comprehensible but in a sense sympathetic ; the hero's passion and the villain's would be the same . Let it be granted , then , that the com- pleteness of the tragedy would ...
... tragedy would have been brought about by a motive not only comprehensible but in a sense sympathetic ; the hero's passion and the villain's would be the same . Let it be granted , then , that the com- pleteness of the tragedy would ...
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... tragedy of a criminal ; but it shows us , instead of the gradual history of the temptation and the fall , followed by the fatal march of consequences , nothing but the precise psychological moment in which the first irrevocable step is ...
... tragedy of a criminal ; but it shows us , instead of the gradual history of the temptation and the fall , followed by the fatal march of consequences , nothing but the precise psychological moment in which the first irrevocable step is ...
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
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