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... comedy . As the characters are largely one - dimensional , lacking the depth and flexibility of real human beings , so are the plots fantastically contrived , hinging upon the most improbable coincidences and absurdities . At best , we ...
... comedy . As the characters are largely one - dimensional , lacking the depth and flexibility of real human beings , so are the plots fantastically contrived , hinging upon the most improbable coincidences and absurdities . At best , we ...
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... comedy : i.e. , might we not consider these plays , like- wise , sub specie ludi , as kind of game or play ? I submit that comedies such as Love's Labor's Lost , Comedy of Errors , and A Midsummer Night's Dream all exhibit the formal ...
... comedy : i.e. , might we not consider these plays , like- wise , sub specie ludi , as kind of game or play ? I submit that comedies such as Love's Labor's Lost , Comedy of Errors , and A Midsummer Night's Dream all exhibit the formal ...
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... comedy of rejection and not of acceptance . Instead of moving through a series of realistic frustrations to an idealistic conclusion , Epicoene presents for purposes of analysis a society which is found to be intellectually sterile ...
... comedy of rejection and not of acceptance . Instead of moving through a series of realistic frustrations to an idealistic conclusion , Epicoene presents for purposes of analysis a society which is found to be intellectually sterile ...
Contents
Johnson Music and Music | 3 |
Hence with the Nightingale | 13 |
The Decadent View of Life | 19 |
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