Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 5
... 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 ...
Page 20
... 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 ...
Page 39
... theme of the play is to be found . This theme , as always with Webster , is the act of sin and its consequences . Till these consequences are followed out to their final conclusion , the dramatist's intention is not made plain ...
... theme of the play is to be found . This theme , as always with Webster , is the act of sin and its consequences . Till these consequences are followed out to their final conclusion , the dramatist's intention is not made plain ...
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action admiration Adolphe æsthetic Antony and Cleopatra Antony's appear artist aspects beauty Branghtons Burney's character charm civilised comedy comic complex convention critic Dalloway death Devil drama Duchess Duchess of Malfi E. M. FORSTER eighteenth-century Elizabethan Ellénore emotion English Evelina experience expression eyes fact Fanny Burney feeling Flamineo Forster give Gray Gray's heart hero heroine historical House of Gentlefolk Howard's End human humour imagination impression inevitably Jane Austen ladies live Longest Journey looked love-story Mansfield Park mind Miss mood moral nature never Northanger Abbey novel novelists observation Octavius once passages passion picture Pindaric play plot poem poetry Progress of Poesy reader realistic reality relation reveals romantic Russian satirical scene seems sense sensibility sentiment Shakespeare shows significance social soul spirit story success talent taste theme things thought tragedy tragic true Turgenev turn Virginia Woolf virtue vision Webster Wilcox worldly writer