A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... elements . But there is a group of plays then acted which were not adaptations but truly English , and although they have weaknesses and an element of the ridiculous , they reveal the national drama as already almost a reality . They ...
... elements . But there is a group of plays then acted which were not adaptations but truly English , and although they have weaknesses and an element of the ridiculous , they reveal the national drama as already almost a reality . They ...
Page 435
... elements is perfect , absolute , and beyond analysis . A whole scene is lifted to a higher mood while the proportions of its constituent elements are unmodified , and thus the pleasure of truth , which is retained , and the added ...
... elements is perfect , absolute , and beyond analysis . A whole scene is lifted to a higher mood while the proportions of its constituent elements are unmodified , and thus the pleasure of truth , which is retained , and the added ...
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... elements , whose formation , modern and urban as it is , may receive , for want of a more exact term , the name of bourgeois . Thus a compromise is established , in which the influences of the middle order of the State are every day ...
... elements , whose formation , modern and urban as it is , may receive , for want of a more exact term , the name of bourgeois . Thus a compromise is established , in which the influences of the middle order of the State are every day ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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