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... ask - or if we ask : few do- why particular characters in a poetic drama speak only in verse or only in prose ; or when we try to engage with those recent , dauntingly specialised and controversial textual studies which set out to ...
... ask - or if we ask : few do- why particular characters in a poetic drama speak only in verse or only in prose ; or when we try to engage with those recent , dauntingly specialised and controversial textual studies which set out to ...
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... asks how the world goes and hears in effect that , in a general way , it gets worse and worse . He then asks ( in precious , tumid verse ) to be told of wonders , pausing in the course of his request to register the presence of the ...
... asks how the world goes and hears in effect that , in a general way , it gets worse and worse . He then asks ( in precious , tumid verse ) to be told of wonders , pausing in the course of his request to register the presence of the ...
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... ask for nothing , or is another order of reciprocity and obligation involved ? Thus Timon at the beginning of the ... asks for nothing unless it be gratitude . The terms are cognate , the implied behaviour equally so . Moreover , such ...
... ask for nothing , or is another order of reciprocity and obligation involved ? Thus Timon at the beginning of the ... asks for nothing unless it be gratitude . The terms are cognate , the implied behaviour equally so . Moreover , such ...
Contents
The Paragone | 3 |
Timon Among the Suitors | 17 |
One Playwright or Two? | 30 |
Copyright | |
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