Shakespearian ComedyMalcolm Bradbury, David Palmer |
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Page 70
... fact that all the mechanicals ' scenes show the preparation and performance of a play . That it is an amateur performance is rendered the less significant by Theseus ' remark " The best in this kind are but shadows .... But on other ...
... fact that all the mechanicals ' scenes show the preparation and performance of a play . That it is an amateur performance is rendered the less significant by Theseus ' remark " The best in this kind are but shadows .... But on other ...
Page 143
... fact that an apparently fictional type has an accredited reality . Any Shakespeare Fool has ( and there is perhaps a touch of wry irony here ) a far more clearly definable and recognizable source than , say , Lear , or any other of ...
... fact that an apparently fictional type has an accredited reality . Any Shakespeare Fool has ( and there is perhaps a touch of wry irony here ) a far more clearly definable and recognizable source than , say , Lear , or any other of ...
Page 178
... fact . The child is allowed his fancies : a foolish thing is but a toy . When he grows up he pays for them , or else discovers that the self - deceptions in which he is tempted to take refuge are easily penetrated by the world ...
... fact . The child is allowed his fancies : a foolish thing is but a toy . When he grows up he pays for them , or else discovers that the self - deceptions in which he is tempted to take refuge are easily penetrated by the world ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Constancy | 31 |
Shakespeare Without Sources STANLEY WELLS | 58 |
Copyright | |
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Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625 Andrew Hadfield No preview available - 2007 |