Engagement with Knavery: Point of View in Richard III, The Jew of Malta, Volpone, and The Revenger's Tragedy |
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... play's morality . Fulwell turns this danger to our advantage by making the spirit we might share with Newfangle , or our possible kinship with him , an object of satire , with Newfangle himself acting as the satirist in his interactions ...
... play's morality . Fulwell turns this danger to our advantage by making the spirit we might share with Newfangle , or our possible kinship with him , an object of satire , with Newfangle himself acting as the satirist in his interactions ...
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... play always makes us uneasy about sharing Richard's fun . The question of the relationship between text and performance is especially vexed in this play's case , both by uncertainties about an authoritative original text and by Cibber's ...
... play always makes us uneasy about sharing Richard's fun . The question of the relationship between text and performance is especially vexed in this play's case , both by uncertainties about an authoritative original text and by Cibber's ...
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... play's " doctrine , ” so that judgment is steered , in John S. Weld's phrase , by " the moral truisms of the time " ( " Christian Comedy : Volpone , ” SP 51 [ 1954 ] : 172–93 ) . This emphasis naturally suggests kinship with the native ...
... play's " doctrine , ” so that judgment is steered , in John S. Weld's phrase , by " the moral truisms of the time " ( " Christian Comedy : Volpone , ” SP 51 [ 1954 ] : 172–93 ) . This emphasis naturally suggests kinship with the native ...
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Stagecraft vs Statecraft | 63 |
The Chimera of Fox and Fool | 99 |
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