Twenty-three Plays and the SonnetsC. Scribner's Sons, 1938 - SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, 1564-1616--CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION. - 1116 pages |
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... Shake- speare has been called the method of common sense . The first aim of a poet , he holds , must be to instruct by pleasing and Shakespeare pleases because he holds up " a faithful mirror of manners and of life . " Johnson defends ...
... Shake- speare has been called the method of common sense . The first aim of a poet , he holds , must be to instruct by pleasing and Shakespeare pleases because he holds up " a faithful mirror of manners and of life . " Johnson defends ...
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... Shake- speare's plays to the changed taste of his time . As early as 1661 he re - wrote Measure for Measure as The Law Against Lovers , intro- ducing Benedick and Beatrice from Much Ado and creating a singing and dancing part for a ...
... Shake- speare's plays to the changed taste of his time . As early as 1661 he re - wrote Measure for Measure as The Law Against Lovers , intro- ducing Benedick and Beatrice from Much Ado and creating a singing and dancing part for a ...
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... Shake- speare as a Dramatist . Apart from some now discarded notions of the Elizabethan stage , the best single book on the subject . Dowden , Edward , Shakespeare - His Mind and Art ; 1880. Old - fashioned , but interesting and ...
... Shake- speare as a Dramatist . Apart from some now discarded notions of the Elizabethan stage , the best single book on the subject . Dowden , Edward , Shakespeare - His Mind and Art ; 1880. Old - fashioned , but interesting and ...
Contents
GENERAL INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS | 13 |
MEASURE FOR MEASURE | 21 |
Copyright | |
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