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... Poetic Styles The Shakespeare Inset Shakespeare Shakespeare's Dramatic Structures Focus on Macbeth Shakespeare's ... Poetics Shakespeare The Shakespeare Claimants Iconoclastes That Shakespeherian Rag The Living Image Shakespeare, Spenser ...
... Poetic Styles The Shakespeare Inset Shakespeare Shakespeare's Dramatic Structures Focus on Macbeth Shakespeare's ... Poetics Shakespeare The Shakespeare Claimants Iconoclastes That Shakespeherian Rag The Living Image Shakespeare, Spenser ...
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... asks of his audience what Coleridge called “that willing suspension of disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.” But many critics have taken his plays—and many still do-— CHARACTERS AND TRUTH TO LIFE 11.
... asks of his audience what Coleridge called “that willing suspension of disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.” But many critics have taken his plays—and many still do-— CHARACTERS AND TRUTH TO LIFE 11.
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... poetic, not psychological; they arouse tragic misgivings, rather than rational, logical expectations. And this minor improbability in Othello's conduct as governor only makes more acceptable the similar and greater one as a husband when ...
... poetic, not psychological; they arouse tragic misgivings, rather than rational, logical expectations. And this minor improbability in Othello's conduct as governor only makes more acceptable the similar and greater one as a husband when ...
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Contents
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Chapter II Shakespeare and the OrderDisorder Antithesis | 39 |
Chapter III Comedy | 57 |
Chapter IV Imaginative Interpretation and Troilus and Cressida | 89 |
Chapter V History | 115 |
Chapter VI Tragedy | 157 |
Chapter VII The Last Plays | 188 |
Book List | 201 |
Index | 205 |
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