The Story of English LiteratureThe function of an introduction to English literature is to interest students in the content and spirit of great books and their relation to their times and to one another. |
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... Shakespeare's trag- edies permeates his comedies as well . Comedy is a lighter thing . Persons , such as Comedy ... Shakespeare made his opportunities . The story which provides the framework of The Merchant of Venice , for example , is ...
... Shakespeare's trag- edies permeates his comedies as well . Comedy is a lighter thing . Persons , such as Comedy ... Shakespeare made his opportunities . The story which provides the framework of The Merchant of Venice , for example , is ...
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Edmund Kemper Broadus. played . The arch - experimenter was Shakespeare . The voyager among Shakespeare's plays will discover , not only a richness of vocabulary such as no writer since has had in equal measure , but also a richness of ...
Edmund Kemper Broadus. played . The arch - experimenter was Shakespeare . The voyager among Shakespeare's plays will discover , not only a richness of vocabulary such as no writer since has had in equal measure , but also a richness of ...
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... Shakespeare's are like the rest ; but even when he is merely saying over again what his fellow - poets are saying ... Shakespeare himself , more of his own personal feeling , in the sonnets , than we can ever expect to discover in his ...
... Shakespeare's are like the rest ; but even when he is merely saying over again what his fellow - poets are saying ... Shakespeare himself , more of his own personal feeling , in the sonnets , than we can ever expect to discover in his ...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
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