Shakespeare Studies, Historical and Comparative in MethodUngar, 1960 - 502 pages A collection and study of Shakespeare's works. |
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Page 39
... hero in popular fiction . The ' best - sellers ' no longer present a hero who bows as a true knight before the will of his lady , but one with hair on his chest , as the current vernacular would have it , who , little thinking of the ...
... hero in popular fiction . The ' best - sellers ' no longer present a hero who bows as a true knight before the will of his lady , but one with hair on his chest , as the current vernacular would have it , who , little thinking of the ...
Page 96
... hero or a villain . In Greek tragedy , however , the contrast is not so much between character and conduct as ' between the hero's conduct and its consequences -between the favourable expectations raised by his action and the deplorable ...
... hero or a villain . In Greek tragedy , however , the contrast is not so much between character and conduct as ' between the hero's conduct and its consequences -between the favourable expectations raised by his action and the deplorable ...
Page 135
... hero receives the command of the paternal ghost but feigns madness ; he upbraids himself for failure to act but resolves upon a play ; he undertakes the play , but next appears soliloquizing on suicide and saying not a word of play ...
... hero receives the command of the paternal ghost but feigns madness ; he upbraids himself for failure to act but resolves upon a play ; he undertakes the play , but next appears soliloquizing on suicide and saying not a word of play ...
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the device in Terence and Plautus 9 In sixteenth | 12 |
CHAPTER II | 36 |
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