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Page 148
... audience . The action may be a conventionalized ritual of mourning for a tribal hero ; it may be represented by song , dance , and pantomime with not a word spoken ; the actors may be goatherds and the audience peasants ; the stage may ...
... audience . The action may be a conventionalized ritual of mourning for a tribal hero ; it may be represented by song , dance , and pantomime with not a word spoken ; the actors may be goatherds and the audience peasants ; the stage may ...
Page 174
... audience in a full repose ; but this cannot be brought to pass but by many other imperfect actions , which conduce to it , and hold the audience in a delightful suspense of what will be . In addition to the unities the neo - classic ...
... audience in a full repose ; but this cannot be brought to pass but by many other imperfect actions , which conduce to it , and hold the audience in a delightful suspense of what will be . In addition to the unities the neo - classic ...
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... audience . A more sophisticated device was a conversation between two friends in which everything which the audience must know is told them . Thus in Terence's Phormio , Davos , a slave , asks his friend Geta , also a slave : But what ...
... audience . A more sophisticated device was a conversation between two friends in which everything which the audience must know is told them . Thus in Terence's Phormio , Davos , a slave , asks his friend Geta , also a slave : But what ...
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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 |