From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty AuthorsGrosset & Dunlap, 1898 - 317 pages |
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Page 96
... Julius Cæsar , " the comedy element is reduced to a minimum . But in others , as " Romeo and Juliet " and " Hamlet , " it heightens the tragic feeling by the irony of contrast . Akin to this is the use to which Shakspere put the old ...
... Julius Cæsar , " the comedy element is reduced to a minimum . But in others , as " Romeo and Juliet " and " Hamlet , " it heightens the tragic feeling by the irony of contrast . Akin to this is the use to which Shakspere put the old ...
Page 97
... Julius Cæsar , " Originality " Coriolanus , " and " Antony and Cleopatra . " It is plays . characteristic of Shakspere that he invented the plot of none of his plays , but took material that he found at hand . In these Roman tragedies ...
... Julius Cæsar , " Originality " Coriolanus , " and " Antony and Cleopatra . " It is plays . characteristic of Shakspere that he invented the plot of none of his plays , but took material that he found at hand . In these Roman tragedies ...
Page 145
... Julius Cæsar , " sub- Stage versions stituting rime for blank verše . In conjunction with Dryden , he altered " The Tempest , " complicating the intrigue by the introduction of a male counterpart to Miranda - a youth who had never seen ...
... Julius Cæsar , " sub- Stage versions stituting rime for blank verše . In conjunction with Dryden , he altered " The Tempest , " complicating the intrigue by the introduction of a male counterpart to Miranda - a youth who had never seen ...
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