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... King John . His- torical continuity and imaginative continuity are of two houses . And nothing could make Henry IV imaginatively continuous with Richard II . The person of Henry IV suffers for the interruption . As Boling- broke in ...
... King John . His- torical continuity and imaginative continuity are of two houses . And nothing could make Henry IV imaginatively continuous with Richard II . The person of Henry IV suffers for the interruption . As Boling- broke in ...
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... King Charles I himself died one . The people who admired him most , and most intelligently , before the Civil War ... King and the wits on his side ; but when , after a gap in the very history of the theatre , a new King and new wits ...
... King Charles I himself died one . The people who admired him most , and most intelligently , before the Civil War ... King and the wits on his side ; but when , after a gap in the very history of the theatre , a new King and new wits ...
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... King Lear . I do not doubt that it is required . But the only reason for believing that a refined sensibility is necessary to respond to King Lear , is that King Lear is a very delicate and subtle object . Our response to King Lear can ...
... King Lear . I do not doubt that it is required . But the only reason for believing that a refined sensibility is necessary to respond to King Lear , is that King Lear is a very delicate and subtle object . Our response to King Lear can ...
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