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Yet nineteenth century critics tended to overlook this convention and extended sympathy to villains like Shylock . Heine , for example , commenting on a performance of The Merchant of Venice , describes " a beautiful pale Englishwoman ...
Yet nineteenth century critics tended to overlook this convention and extended sympathy to villains like Shylock . Heine , for example , commenting on a performance of The Merchant of Venice , describes " a beautiful pale Englishwoman ...
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We have already noted that our sympathy and understanding were directed toward him . This means that the good people in the play , Malcolm and Donalbain , Macduff and his family , who are engaged in combatting evil and who should ...
We have already noted that our sympathy and understanding were directed toward him . This means that the good people in the play , Malcolm and Donalbain , Macduff and his family , who are engaged in combatting evil and who should ...
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By no means , for the characterization of Shylock is so thorough and so effective that he claims a disproportionate share of our interest and , to some spectators , a large measure of sympathy . These facts are mentioned to show that ...
By no means , for the characterization of Shylock is so thorough and so effective that he claims a disproportionate share of our interest and , to some spectators , a large measure of sympathy . These facts are mentioned to show that ...
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| Title | Demi-devils: The Character of Shakespeare's Villains |
| Author | Charles Norton Coe |
| Publisher | Bookman Associates, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 May 2008 |
| Length | 122 pages |
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