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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... choice confronting the protagonist , and in relation to which we are in doubt of our moral bearings . In Hal's choice between Falstaff and the Lord Chief Justice , 2 in Coriolanus's choice between destroying and saving Rome , in Shylock's ...
... choice confronting the protagonist , and in relation to which we are in doubt of our moral bearings . In Hal's choice between Falstaff and the Lord Chief Justice , 2 in Coriolanus's choice between destroying and saving Rome , in Shylock's ...
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... choice . It is , indeed , this series of confrontations with moral problems of varying degrees of perplexity — rather than the concern with Commodity , of which some critics have made far too much as the supposed unifying theme of King ...
... choice . It is , indeed , this series of confrontations with moral problems of varying degrees of perplexity — rather than the concern with Commodity , of which some critics have made far too much as the supposed unifying theme of King ...
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... choice . Is he to throw in his lot with Dover Wilson and Cassius , and regard Shakespeare's Caesar as a boastful tyrant , strutting blindly to his well - merited doom , and the assassination as a glorious act of liberation ? Or is he to ...
... choice . Is he to throw in his lot with Dover Wilson and Cassius , and regard Shakespeare's Caesar as a boastful tyrant , strutting blindly to his well - merited doom , and the assassination as a glorious act of liberation ? Or is he to ...
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