The Iconography of Power: Ideas and Images of Rulership on the English Renaissance StageGyörgy Endre Szőnyi, Rowland Wymer |
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... death and de- struction . As is indirectly shown by Falstaff's end in Henry V ( 2.3 ) , death is not intrin- sically tragic . In Richard II , the events anticipating , accompanying and following Richard's death no doubt inspire a tragic ...
... death and de- struction . As is indirectly shown by Falstaff's end in Henry V ( 2.3 ) , death is not intrin- sically tragic . In Richard II , the events anticipating , accompanying and following Richard's death no doubt inspire a tragic ...
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... death . In a partially similar way , in Julius Caesar Calphurnia foresees Caesar's murder ( 2.2 ) . In both plays , a sort of premonition of sorrow makes a tragic development appear as unavoidable : “ ... What can be avoided / Whose end ...
... death . In a partially similar way , in Julius Caesar Calphurnia foresees Caesar's murder ( 2.2 ) . In both plays , a sort of premonition of sorrow makes a tragic development appear as unavoidable : “ ... What can be avoided / Whose end ...
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... death . By the time of the late Renaissance , and in the hands of Vindice , the skull has become a memento mockery , a joyfully tragic game in the hands of the Vice , the great manipulator . " 1 While mocking the presence of death in ...
... death . By the time of the late Renaissance , and in the hands of Vindice , the skull has become a memento mockery , a joyfully tragic game in the hands of the Vice , the great manipulator . " 1 While mocking the presence of death in ...
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FOREWORD ROWLAND WYMER | 4 |
MICHAEL PINCOMBE | 33 |
ANDREAS HÖFELE | 53 |
Copyright | |
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