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Page 122
... action which is its foundation : its humor , its characterization , its picture of English life . These interests , however , derive from the basic action and minister to it . It is the action which provides the structure for all that ...
... action which is its foundation : its humor , its characterization , its picture of English life . These interests , however , derive from the basic action and minister to it . It is the action which provides the structure for all that ...
Page 151
... action . The plays of these writers are com- plete without the stage directions . Moreover the action of the drama differs from the narrative action of prose fiction in being more heightened , more concrete , and more condensed in time ...
... action . The plays of these writers are com- plete without the stage directions . Moreover the action of the drama differs from the narrative action of prose fiction in being more heightened , more concrete , and more condensed in time ...
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Ralph Philip Boas. in the action , provided exposition of the action or the characters , and commented on the action in odes of great poetical beauty . Furthermore the characters were gen- eralized by the use of conventional masks and ...
Ralph Philip Boas. in the action , provided exposition of the action or the characters , and commented on the action in odes of great poetical beauty . Furthermore the characters were gen- eralized by the use of conventional masks and ...
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action Æschylus audience ballad beauty Ben Jonson characters charm classic climax comedy complete criticism Darcy death developed dominance drama dramatic literature dramatist Edipus eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan emotional English literature epic essay essayist experience exposition expression fate feel fiction George Eliot Greek tragedy Hamlet heroic heroic couplet human Iago iambic iambic pentameter ideas illusion imaginative important incident influence intense interest King literary lives lyric lyrical poetry Matthew Arnold Milton mind modern narrative neo-classic never novel novelist Othello Pater pattern period play plot poem poet poetic poetry popular present Pride and Prejudice prose reader Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance satire scene sense Shakespeare social sometimes song sonnet soul speech spirit stage stanza story structure student style sweet Tale Tartuffe thee theme thou thought tion trimeter unity verse vivid Walter Pater women words writers
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Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |