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... tragic char- acters.2 This is the point with which he is concerned , the moral responsibility of the characters for the deeds which lead . to tragic conclusions . In discussing Hamlet he avers of Hamlet's melancholy ( or melancholia ) ...
... tragic char- acters.2 This is the point with which he is concerned , the moral responsibility of the characters for the deeds which lead . to tragic conclusions . In discussing Hamlet he avers of Hamlet's melancholy ( or melancholia ) ...
Page 275
... tragic heroes . " It makes no differ- ence whether they mean well or ill , " he says , for the men and women in the tragic world " fight blindly in the dark , and the power that works through them makes them the instruments of a design ...
... tragic heroes . " It makes no differ- ence whether they mean well or ill , " he says , for the men and women in the tragic world " fight blindly in the dark , and the power that works through them makes them the instruments of a design ...
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... tragic characters in relation to the moral universe . He paid no attention to the plot of the plays in this connection , and he assumed at the outset that the plays were " secular . " Of these matters I propose to write in a later ...
... tragic characters in relation to the moral universe . He paid no attention to the plot of the plays in this connection , and he assumed at the outset that the plays were " secular . " Of these matters I propose to write in a later ...
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action affections ambition anger appearance appetite Aristotle Banquo Blazon of Jealousie blood body Bradley Bradley's brain called Cassio cause chapter characters choler complexion Cordelia courage cries death deeds Desdemona desire devil discussion doth Elizabethan English envy evil explains fall of princes father fear fortune French Academie ghost Gloucester Goneril grief Hamlet hate hath hear heart Holland's Plutarch Horatio humours Iago Iago's Ibid ideas imitation judgement justice Kent kill King Lear Lady Macbeth Laertes Lavater lust Macduff madness maner melan melancholy adust mind moral philosophy mortal sin murder naturall nature Othello passion play Plutarch Polonius punishment reason Renaissance revenge says scene seems Seneca Shakespeare Shakespearean tragedy shame shew soliloquy soul speak speech spirits supernatural teaching temper thee theme things Thomas thou thought tragic hero translation Treatise unto vengeance vertue vices villain virtue witches wrath