Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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... King Lear , which are also of considerable historical interest as being the first essays devoted exclusively to an examination of a single Shakespearian b 1 play . His complacent belief in the rules prompted INTRODUCTION xvii.
... King Lear , which are also of considerable historical interest as being the first essays devoted exclusively to an examination of a single Shakespearian b 1 play . His complacent belief in the rules prompted INTRODUCTION xvii.
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... King Lear , Joseph Warton repeats the standard objection to tragi - comedy and underplots . In the Biographia Britannica we still find it stated that Shakespeare set himself to please the populace , and that the people " had no notion ...
... King Lear , Joseph Warton repeats the standard objection to tragi - comedy and underplots . In the Biographia Britannica we still find it stated that Shakespeare set himself to please the populace , and that the people " had no notion ...
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... King Lear contributed by Joseph Warton to the Adventurer in 1753-54 , we can recognise the coming change in critical methods . He began them by giving in a sentence a summary of the common verdicts : As Shakespeare is sometimes blamable ...
... King Lear contributed by Joseph Warton to the Adventurer in 1753-54 , we can recognise the coming change in critical methods . He began them by giving in a sentence a summary of the common verdicts : As Shakespeare is sometimes blamable ...
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... kings down to peasants , with equal truth and equal force . If human nature were destroyed , and no monument were left of it except his works , other beings might know what man was from those writings . " The same eulogy is repeated in ...
... kings down to peasants , with equal truth and equal force . If human nature were destroyed , and no monument were left of it except his works , other beings might know what man was from those writings . " The same eulogy is repeated in ...
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... King Lear , and Timon of Athens ; and in 1789 he concluded his character studies with his essay on Falstaff . As the titles show , Richardson's work has a moral purpose . His intention , as he tells us , was to make poetry subservient ...
... King Lear , and Timon of Athens ; and in 1789 he concluded his character studies with his essay on Falstaff . As the titles show , Richardson's work has a moral purpose . His intention , as he tells us , was to make poetry subservient ...
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