Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to the National Edition of the Pictorial ShakspereCharles Knight, 1851 - 560 pages |
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... principle of dramatic art in them , although in their outward form they appeared to be dramas . Gosson says , “ These plays are good plays and sweet plays , and of all plays the best plays , and most to be liked , worthy to be sung of ...
... principle of dramatic art in them , although in their outward form they appeared to be dramas . Gosson says , “ These plays are good plays and sweet plays , and of all plays the best plays , and most to be liked , worthy to be sung of ...
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... principle that they produced the most perfect work of art when they took their art entirely out of the pro- vince of nature . The highest art is a repre- sentation of Nature in her very highest forms ; something which is above common ...
... principle that they produced the most perfect work of art when they took their art entirely out of the pro- vince of nature . The highest art is a repre- sentation of Nature in her very highest forms ; something which is above common ...
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... principle opposite to nature ; something purely conventional , and conse- quently always uninteresting , often ... principles CHAP . V. ] 25 THE EARLIEST HISTORICAL DRAMA .
... principle opposite to nature ; something purely conventional , and conse- quently always uninteresting , often ... principles CHAP . V. ] 25 THE EARLIEST HISTORICAL DRAMA .
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... principle of alliteration is carried into the most ludicrous absurdity , and the pathos is scarcely more moving than the woes of Pyramus and Thisby fn A ' Mid- summer Night's Dream . ' One example of a lady in distress may suffice ...
... principle of alliteration is carried into the most ludicrous absurdity , and the pathos is scarcely more moving than the woes of Pyramus and Thisby fn A ' Mid- summer Night's Dream . ' One example of a lady in distress may suffice ...
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... principle of marking with inverted commas those pas- sages in which he supposed the hand of Shakspere might be traced in this play of ' Titus Andronicus ' is based upon a vital error . It is not with us a question whether the passages ...
... principle of marking with inverted commas those pas- sages in which he supposed the hand of Shakspere might be traced in this play of ' Titus Andronicus ' is based upon a vital error . It is not with us a question whether the passages ...
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