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... there are far more fathers than mothers, sons than daughters, in his plays, few if any of which require more than the company's normal complement of three or four boys. The company played primarily in London's public playhouses – there ...
... there are far more fathers than mothers, sons than daughters, in his plays, few if any of which require more than the company's normal complement of three or four boys. The company played primarily in London's public playhouses – there ...
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... there would have been no tragedy. Conversely, if Othello had investigated and considered as carefully as Hamlet does, he would not have murdered Desdemona. Perhaps, we might conclude, there is something per verse in Hamlet's nature and ...
... there would have been no tragedy. Conversely, if Othello had investigated and considered as carefully as Hamlet does, he would not have murdered Desdemona. Perhaps, we might conclude, there is something per verse in Hamlet's nature and ...
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... There are inferior authors who cannot read Latin, Nashe says. 'Yet English Seneca read by candlelight yields many good sentences, as “Blood is a beggar,” and so forth; and if you entreat him fair in a frosty morning, he will afford you ...
... There are inferior authors who cannot read Latin, Nashe says. 'Yet English Seneca read by candlelight yields many good sentences, as “Blood is a beggar,” and so forth; and if you entreat him fair in a frosty morning, he will afford you ...
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... There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (I.5.166–7) The development of Senecan motifs in Hamlet, alongside Christian attitudes, provokes two further thoughts. First, while the general ...
... There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (I.5.166–7) The development of Senecan motifs in Hamlet, alongside Christian attitudes, provokes two further thoughts. First, while the general ...
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... There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. (V.2.213–14) Placing Hamlet within the available concepts of revenge helps us to think about the familiar question about his 'character'. The strategy followed here is not to ...
... There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. (V.2.213–14) Placing Hamlet within the available concepts of revenge helps us to think about the familiar question about his 'character'. The strategy followed here is not to ...
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