The Problem Plays of Shakespeare: A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and CleopatraThe opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play's relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon, are all touched upon. |
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... Troilus and Cressida , and sometimes Hamlet , as Shakespeare's Problem Plays . It seeks to define the term ' problem play ' more narrowly and precisely than has been done in the past and to apply it to a largely different group of plays ...
... Troilus and Cressida , and sometimes Hamlet , as Shakespeare's Problem Plays . It seeks to define the term ' problem play ' more narrowly and precisely than has been done in the past and to apply it to a largely different group of plays ...
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... Troilus and Cressida , and Hamlet , and of calling them ' Shakespeare's Problem Plays ' , was F. S. Boas . In Shakspere and his Predecessors ( 1896 ) he wrote : All these dramas introduce us into highly artificial societies , whose ...
... Troilus and Cressida , and Hamlet , and of calling them ' Shakespeare's Problem Plays ' , was F. S. Boas . In Shakspere and his Predecessors ( 1896 ) he wrote : All these dramas introduce us into highly artificial societies , whose ...
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... Troilus and Cressida , on the other hand , is neither moral nor psychological , but rather one of interpreting so complex a play , above all of discovering the relation of the war - plot to the love - story ( p . 37o ) . It presents the ...
... Troilus and Cressida , on the other hand , is neither moral nor psychological , but rather one of interpreting so complex a play , above all of discovering the relation of the war - plot to the love - story ( p . 37o ) . It presents the ...
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... Troilus and Cressida . His concept of the Problem Play and his view of the proper inter- pretation of the three plays he discusses under this label are irreconcilable , because they point in opposite directions . Twenty years after ...
... Troilus and Cressida . His concept of the Problem Play and his view of the proper inter- pretation of the three plays he discusses under this label are irreconcilable , because they point in opposite directions . Twenty years after ...
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... Troilus and Cressida are like the second problem child , full of interest and complexity but divided within them- selves only in the eyes of those who have misjudged them . To put the difference in another way , Hamlet and Troilus and ...
... Troilus and Cressida are like the second problem child , full of interest and complexity but divided within them- selves only in the eyes of those who have misjudged them . To put the difference in another way , Hamlet and Troilus and ...
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