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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... man / That ever lived in the tide of times ' , and at the assassina- tion as a hideous crime ? Fortunately for the irresolute there is a third way in which the play may be viewed and a third tradition in which it may be placed . Perhaps ...
... man / That ever lived in the tide of times ' , and at the assassina- tion as a hideous crime ? Fortunately for the irresolute there is a third way in which the play may be viewed and a third tradition in which it may be placed . Perhaps ...
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... man that , mistrusting his manner of dealing in the commonwealth , found out his craft and malice , which he cunningly cloaked under the habit of outward courtesy and familiarity ' ( pp . 5-6 ) .1 He makes it clear that for him Caesar's ...
... man that , mistrusting his manner of dealing in the commonwealth , found out his craft and malice , which he cunningly cloaked under the habit of outward courtesy and familiarity ' ( pp . 5-6 ) .1 He makes it clear that for him Caesar's ...
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... Man of Destiny , and of the whole drama of his rise to power , his establishment of absolute rule , and of the defeat of his assassins at Philippi , as the work of Providence . It is voiced again in his Brutus , where , after pointing ...
... Man of Destiny , and of the whole drama of his rise to power , his establishment of absolute rule , and of the defeat of his assassins at Philippi , as the work of Providence . It is voiced again in his Brutus , where , after pointing ...
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... man he murdered is to Plutarch only a further sign of Brutus's courage and his ' marvelous noble mind ' in killing a man of such great power and wisdom as Caesar . His view of the other conspirators seems largely determined by a desire ...
... man he murdered is to Plutarch only a further sign of Brutus's courage and his ' marvelous noble mind ' in killing a man of such great power and wisdom as Caesar . His view of the other conspirators seems largely determined by a desire ...
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... man , hauying on an holy vesture : and suche an officer , as neuer was the lyke , so profitable to all menne and to his countrie and Empire . The whiche God did punishe in them , and many times gaue tokens of it ' ( pp . 67-8 ) . About ...
... man , hauying on an holy vesture : and suche an officer , as neuer was the lyke , so profitable to all menne and to his countrie and Empire . The whiche God did punishe in them , and many times gaue tokens of it ' ( pp . 67-8 ) . About ...
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