The Elizabethan Dramatists as CriticsGreenwood Press, 1968 - 420 pages Examines Elizabethan dramatists’ reflected and criticized their own art. |
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... [ Spanish Tragedy ] was ! They'll prate and swagger , and keep a stir of art and devices , when , as I am a gentle- man , read ' hem , they are the most 1 APPLIED CRITICISM.
... [ Spanish Tragedy ] was ! They'll prate and swagger , and keep a stir of art and devices , when , as I am a gentle- man , read ' hem , they are the most 1 APPLIED CRITICISM.
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... tragedy at the top of the list of dramatic forms . So did the Eliza- bethans . Kyd . Spanish Tragedy ( 1583 ) . IV . i .: Balthazar . Hieronimo , methinks a comedy were better . Hier ... A comedy ? Fiel comedies are fit for common wits ...
... tragedy at the top of the list of dramatic forms . So did the Eliza- bethans . Kyd . Spanish Tragedy ( 1583 ) . IV . i .: Balthazar . Hieronimo , methinks a comedy were better . Hier ... A comedy ? Fiel comedies are fit for common wits ...
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... Spanish Tragedy ( 1583 ) . IV i : Balthazar . What , would you have us play a tragedy ? Hieronimo . Why , Nero thought it no disparagement , And kings and emperors have ta'en delight To make experience of their wits in plays . Narcissus ...
... Spanish Tragedy ( 1583 ) . IV i : Balthazar . What , would you have us play a tragedy ? Hieronimo . Why , Nero thought it no disparagement , And kings and emperors have ta'en delight To make experience of their wits in plays . Narcissus ...
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APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
SHAKESPEARE | 243 |
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