Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... theme , Shakespeare is shockingly careless about sticking to it . A large part of the plot has nothing to do with the love - story . No light is thrown on the relations of Antony and Cleopatra by the scenes about Pompey's rebellion ...
... theme , Shakespeare is shockingly careless about sticking to it . A large part of the plot has nothing to do with the love - story . No light is thrown on the relations of Antony and Cleopatra by the scenes about Pompey's rebellion ...
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... theme . This theme is not love ; it is success . This fact is the master- key to the riddle of the play . Shakespeare looks at the chaotic spectacle of the great world convulsed in the struggle for power and happiness ; and , he asks ...
... theme . This theme is not love ; it is success . This fact is the master- key to the riddle of the play . Shakespeare looks at the chaotic spectacle of the great world convulsed in the struggle for power and happiness ; and , he asks ...
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... theme . Yet he never seems artful . The people have such independent reality , their relations to each other seem so much the spontaneous expression of their natures , that they appear to have organised themselves into a unity by happy ...
... theme . Yet he never seems artful . The people have such independent reality , their relations to each other seem so much the spontaneous expression of their natures , that they appear to have organised themselves into a unity by happy ...
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