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... tragedy , but he has illustrated , as effectively as Sophocles himself could have done had he written in English , all that can be achieved in impression by dramatic art working under the conditions imposed on it by the Greeks . If ...
... tragedy , but he has illustrated , as effectively as Sophocles himself could have done had he written in English , all that can be achieved in impression by dramatic art working under the conditions imposed on it by the Greeks . If ...
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... tragedy is often supposed to be , ' silver - grey , placid and perfect , ' and for that very reason has no resemblance of any kind whatever to what a Greek tragedy actually was , of all creations of the human imagination one of the most ...
... tragedy is often supposed to be , ' silver - grey , placid and perfect , ' and for that very reason has no resemblance of any kind whatever to what a Greek tragedy actually was , of all creations of the human imagination one of the most ...
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... tragedy , so we must be grave throughout , ' or ' this is a comedy , so gravity must be avoided like the plague . ' He says ' this is a play , for presentation on the stage , before an audience of Englishmen ; it is a case of " As they ...
... tragedy , so we must be grave throughout , ' or ' this is a comedy , so gravity must be avoided like the plague . ' He says ' this is a play , for presentation on the stage , before an audience of Englishmen ; it is a case of " As they ...
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