Demi-devils: The Character of Shakespeare's Villains |
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... father's service , she says , I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so . Our house is hell ; and thou , a merry devil , Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness . ( II : iii : 1-3 ) Jessica's unsatisfactory relations with her father ...
... father's service , she says , I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so . Our house is hell ; and thou , a merry devil , Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness . ( II : iii : 1-3 ) Jessica's unsatisfactory relations with her father ...
Page 92
... father and his daughters . A son may contend for his father's or his brother's place , as Ed- mund does . Edmund is also , in some respects , a type villain . The fact that he is a bastard son would tend to make Elizabethan audiences ...
... father and his daughters . A son may contend for his father's or his brother's place , as Ed- mund does . Edmund is also , in some respects , a type villain . The fact that he is a bastard son would tend to make Elizabethan audiences ...
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... father . It is not until later in the scene , when Hamlet hears Horatio's account of the appear- ance of his father's ghost , that Hamlet first suspects foul play . Whether or not Hamlet is concerned about his place on the throne having ...
... father . It is not until later in the scene , when Hamlet hears Horatio's account of the appear- ance of his father's ghost , that Hamlet first suspects foul play . Whether or not Hamlet is concerned about his place on the throne having ...
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Aaron and Iago | 25 |
Richard III Macbeth and Lady Macbeth | 47 |
Angelo and Shylock | 69 |
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