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Page 123
... plot unified according to the Aristotelian dictum is based upon the never - failing inter- est of a search or chase . In such a plot there is usually some kind of struggle but the struggle is not the unifying force as in Pride and ...
... plot unified according to the Aristotelian dictum is based upon the never - failing inter- est of a search or chase . In such a plot there is usually some kind of struggle but the struggle is not the unifying force as in Pride and ...
Page 125
... plot or character at once , he would not be interested in them because he would know all there was to know about them . But let the author surround a character or plot with mystery , and immediately the reader tries to pierce the ...
... plot or character at once , he would not be interested in them because he would know all there was to know about them . But let the author surround a character or plot with mystery , and immediately the reader tries to pierce the ...
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... plot of comedy with his use of fairy - folk and supernatural creatures like Caliban and Ariel in The Tempest . The best example of the fairy plot is seen in A Midsummer Night's Dream . Elizabethan comedy is , then , primarily , a ...
... plot of comedy with his use of fairy - folk and supernatural creatures like Caliban and Ariel in The Tempest . The best example of the fairy plot is seen in A Midsummer Night's Dream . Elizabethan comedy is , then , primarily , a ...
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Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |