Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... Antony and Cleopatra by the scenes about Pompey's rebellion . When that is over , just when we think we are getting back to the love - story again , we find ourselves transported to Parthia where we are made to listen to one of Antony's ...
... Antony and Cleopatra by the scenes about Pompey's rebellion . When that is over , just when we think we are getting back to the love - story again , we find ourselves transported to Parthia where we are made to listen to one of Antony's ...
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... Antony's love and his political ambition . Antony could have chosen to give up Cleopatra ; if he had , he would then have overcome Octavius . As Shakespeare saw the matter there was no question of this . Antony's character made it ...
... Antony's love and his political ambition . Antony could have chosen to give up Cleopatra ; if he had , he would then have overcome Octavius . As Shakespeare saw the matter there was no question of this . Antony's character made it ...
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... Antony . Tortured by what he feels to be his treachery , he dies of a broken heart . But the crucial issue is , of course , that exhibited by Antony's own story . Was he right or wrong in yielding to love rather than to political ...
... Antony . Tortured by what he feels to be his treachery , he dies of a broken heart . But the crucial issue is , of course , that exhibited by Antony's own story . Was he right or wrong in yielding to love rather than to political ...
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