Demi-devils: The Character of Shakespeare's Villains |
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... plot supplement each other ; and if it appears to the audience that a character acts only to further the interests of plot , we say that the character is not realistic . The crudest of Elizabethan villains , according to Bradbrook ...
... plot supplement each other ; and if it appears to the audience that a character acts only to further the interests of plot , we say that the character is not realistic . The crudest of Elizabethan villains , according to Bradbrook ...
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... plot . With Claudius , remorse occurs as occasions in the play re- mind him of the blackness of his villainy . Claudius ' thinking is represented as something more than a means for explaining cer- tain elements of the plot to the ...
... plot . With Claudius , remorse occurs as occasions in the play re- mind him of the blackness of his villainy . Claudius ' thinking is represented as something more than a means for explaining cer- tain elements of the plot to the ...
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... plot ; and he is certainly no example of that " one supreme creator " of character whom Swinburne , and other crit- ics before him , extolled . To go to the other extreme and decide who is the most effectively characterized villain is ...
... plot ; and he is certainly no example of that " one supreme creator " of character whom Swinburne , and other crit- ics before him , extolled . To go to the other extreme and decide who is the most effectively characterized villain is ...
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Aaron and Iago | 25 |
Richard III Macbeth and Lady Macbeth | 47 |
Angelo and Shylock | 69 |
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