Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 5
... scene with- out explanation . Nor is Antony and Cleopatra tragic , as King Lear is tragic . It is only when the ... scenes . The hero and heroine themselves are often the objects of satire . Antony gets drunk : Cleopatra slaps her ...
... scene with- out explanation . Nor is Antony and Cleopatra tragic , as King Lear is tragic . It is only when the ... scenes . The hero and heroine themselves are often the objects of satire . Antony gets drunk : Cleopatra slaps her ...
Page 19
... scene , the lesser ones stay behind and make their cynical or enthusiastic com- ments on them . This historical attitude to his subject is also respon- sible for the fact that the play is so much more varied in mood than are ...
... scene , the lesser ones stay behind and make their cynical or enthusiastic com- ments on them . This historical attitude to his subject is also respon- sible for the fact that the play is so much more varied in mood than are ...
Page 93
... scene are incongruously combined first of all with an unsuccessful essay in Smollettian farce - the Captain Mirvan - Madame Duval scenes -- and secondly with a melodramatic romance in the manner of the novelist of sensibility ...
... scene are incongruously combined first of all with an unsuccessful essay in Smollettian farce - the Captain Mirvan - Madame Duval scenes -- and secondly with a melodramatic romance in the manner of the novelist of sensibility ...
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