A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... stage served almost all purposes so long as it was not necessary to represent a special place . Many scenes in Elizabethan plays pass in a vague , indeterminate place , in a street or public square , before a house or in an unspecified ...
... stage served almost all purposes so long as it was not necessary to represent a special place . Many scenes in Elizabethan plays pass in a vague , indeterminate place , in a street or public square , before a house or in an unspecified ...
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... stage was in great need of intensity . Grace , wit , and fancy had been scattered on it , mingled indeed with faults of every kind , but never hitherto had it known this dash , this vehemence , animating a whole play , this rapid march ...
... stage was in great need of intensity . Grace , wit , and fancy had been scattered on it , mingled indeed with faults of every kind , but never hitherto had it known this dash , this vehemence , animating a whole play , this rapid march ...
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... stage . At the very end of his career Shakespeare brings the clown back to the state which was his originally before he became a pro- fessional jester . He identifies him with the country gaby whose name had clung to him , but whom he ...
... stage . At the very end of his career Shakespeare brings the clown back to the state which was his originally before he became a pro- fessional jester . He identifies him with the country gaby whose name had clung to him , but whom he ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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