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... Shakespeare's Histories no more than to the rest of Shakespeare or indeed than to Elizabethan literature generally . I also found that the order I was describing was much more than political order , or , if political , was always a part ...
... Shakespeare's Histories no more than to the rest of Shakespeare or indeed than to Elizabethan literature generally . I also found that the order I was describing was much more than political order , or , if political , was always a part ...
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... Shakespeare's chaos is without meaning apart from the proper background of cosmic order by which to judge it . g While Shakespeare puts the opposition to order and his desire for it in terms of chaos mainly , Spenser ( and above all m ...
... Shakespeare's chaos is without meaning apart from the proper background of cosmic order by which to judge it . g While Shakespeare puts the opposition to order and his desire for it in terms of chaos mainly , Spenser ( and above all m ...
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... Shakespeare ( if it is Shakespeare ) puts the thing the usual way round when in the passage already quoted from the Two Noble Kinsmen he makes Arcite call Mars the " shaker of o'er - rank states " and curer of the " plurisy of people ...
... Shakespeare ( if it is Shakespeare ) puts the thing the usual way round when in the passage already quoted from the Two Noble Kinsmen he makes Arcite call Mars the " shaker of o'er - rank states " and curer of the " plurisy of people ...
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