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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... for the issues raised preclude a completely satisfactory outcome , even when , as in All's Well and Measure for Measure , the complications are outwardly adjusted in the fifth act . In Troilus and Cressida and Hamlet no such partial ...
... for the issues raised preclude a completely satisfactory outcome , even when , as in All's Well and Measure for Measure , the complications are outwardly adjusted in the fifth act . In Troilus and Cressida and Hamlet no such partial ...
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... For the main thesis of his book is that what may seem morally perplexing or ambiguous in these plays to our age would not have seemed so to an Elizabethan audience , that the situations in which their protagonists are placed do not , in ...
... For the main thesis of his book is that what may seem morally perplexing or ambiguous in these plays to our age would not have seemed so to an Elizabethan audience , that the situations in which their protagonists are placed do not , in ...
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... For only by failing to define it , by making it mean different things for different plays , does he find himself able to use it at all as a descriptive label for the four plays he wishes to consider as a group . With engaging frankness ...
... For only by failing to define it , by making it mean different things for different plays , does he find himself able to use it at all as a descriptive label for the four plays he wishes to consider as a group . With engaging frankness ...
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... for a satis- factory definition of the term and shall then consider which , if any , of Shakespeare's plays this definition fits . I shall follow Lawrence in restricting it to moral problems , and exclude plays — if such there be ...
... for a satis- factory definition of the term and shall then consider which , if any , of Shakespeare's plays this definition fits . I shall follow Lawrence in restricting it to moral problems , and exclude plays — if such there be ...
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... For Helen's problem of fulfilling Bertram's tasks is not presented by Shakespeare as a moral problem ( though he could easily have done so had he wished ) .1 Neither is Helen anywhere shown to be uncertain of her moral bearings , nor ...
... For Helen's problem of fulfilling Bertram's tasks is not presented by Shakespeare as a moral problem ( though he could easily have done so had he wished ) .1 Neither is Helen anywhere shown to be uncertain of her moral bearings , nor ...
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