The Tragedy of Richard III, with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth FieldClassic Books Company, 2001 - 500 pages |
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... dramatic purposes , scenes were here and there curtailed ; but then , on the other hand , what cause can be assigned for the addition in the Folio of lines 305-359 in Act IV , scene iii ? In the Quarto this scene is the longest in the ...
... dramatic purposes , scenes were here and there curtailed ; but then , on the other hand , what cause can be assigned for the addition in the Folio of lines 305-359 in Act IV , scene iii ? In the Quarto this scene is the longest in the ...
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... dramatic portrait of considerable truth , and vigour , and con- sistency - but she is not one of Shakespeare's women . He who knew so well in what true greatness of spirit consisted -- who could excite our respect and sym- pathy , even ...
... dramatic portrait of considerable truth , and vigour , and con- sistency - but she is not one of Shakespeare's women . He who knew so well in what true greatness of spirit consisted -- who could excite our respect and sym- pathy , even ...
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... dramatic triumphs of the poet . 38. Anne , Widow of Edward , Prince of Wales ] GAIRDNER : The Earl of Warwick's younger daughter , Anne , had been betrothed to the son of Henry VI . It does not appear that she was married to him ...
... dramatic triumphs of the poet . 38. Anne , Widow of Edward , Prince of Wales ] GAIRDNER : The Earl of Warwick's younger daughter , Anne , had been betrothed to the son of Henry VI . It does not appear that she was married to him ...
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... dramatic purposes , is bridged over , and the catastrophe of the struggle of the rival houses is reached . - S . T. COLERIDGE : This play should be contrasted with Richard II . Pride of intellect is the characteristic of Richard ...
... dramatic purposes , is bridged over , and the catastrophe of the struggle of the rival houses is reached . - S . T. COLERIDGE : This play should be contrasted with Richard II . Pride of intellect is the characteristic of Richard ...
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... dramatic writer , preparing not a tragedy , but a history . - H . REED ( p . 320 ) : The peculiar significancy of the opening scenes of Shakespeare's plays has been often noticed , and it may now be observed that of them all , Richard ...
... dramatic writer , preparing not a tragedy , but a history . - H . REED ( p . 320 ) : The peculiar significancy of the opening scenes of Shakespeare's plays has been often noticed , and it may now be observed that of them all , Richard ...
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Page 241 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
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