Shakespeare Studies: Historical and Comparative in MethodG.E. Stechert & Company, 1942 - 502 pages |
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Page 135
... play , but next appears soliloquizing on suicide and saying not a word of play , ghost , or revenge ; he gives the play at last , but after it , though now convinced , spares the king at prayer and ' goes softly to his mother ' ; " and ...
... play , but next appears soliloquizing on suicide and saying not a word of play , ghost , or revenge ; he gives the play at last , but after it , though now convinced , spares the king at prayer and ' goes softly to his mother ' ; " and ...
Page 136
... play as another , both of these being in the drama then not uncommon ; and ... revenge to follow when two men - one of them his enemy - are behind the ... revenge plays , and ( save to the critics ' eyes ) prominent in Hamlet - of crafty ...
... play as another , both of these being in the drama then not uncommon ; and ... revenge to follow when two men - one of them his enemy - are behind the ... revenge plays , and ( save to the critics ' eyes ) prominent in Hamlet - of crafty ...
Page 226
... revenge play , the latter half of it , like Hamlet , con- taining a ghost to preside over the revenge . The other interpretation does violence to the clear and simple mean- ings of the passages cited , as well as to passages where ...
... revenge play , the latter half of it , like Hamlet , con- taining a ghost to preside over the revenge . The other interpretation does violence to the clear and simple mean- ings of the passages cited , as well as to passages where ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
the device in Terence and Plautus 9 In sixteenth | 12 |
incident to the normal comic violations of decorum | 17 |
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