The History of English Soliloquy: Aeschylus to ShakespeareUniversity Press of America, 1985 - 139 páginas Provides a thorough survey of the history of the soliloquy, from the earliest forms found on pre-Biblical Canaanite tablets through the heights of Shakespeare. Shows how Elizabethan soliloquy evolved out of its ancient forerunners, and that Shakespeare dominates soliloquy. Of particular interest to students and scholars of language, drama and Shakespeare. |
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... rhetorical , ' but if it had not been rhetorical , would it have been anything ? ... Without bombast , we should not have had King Lear . The art of dramatic speech , we must remember , is as near to oratory as to ordinary speech or to ...
... rhetorical , ' but if it had not been rhetorical , would it have been anything ? ... Without bombast , we should not have had King Lear . The art of dramatic speech , we must remember , is as near to oratory as to ordinary speech or to ...
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... rhetorical virtuosity either with or without dramatic motivation , and they also had acquired the habit of figurative writing from the over - use of analogy in philosophy and pseudo science . " Rhetorical virtuosity " is doubtless one ...
... rhetorical virtuosity either with or without dramatic motivation , and they also had acquired the habit of figurative writing from the over - use of analogy in philosophy and pseudo science . " Rhetorical virtuosity " is doubtless one ...
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... rhetorical - speaking . Brutus speaks three soliloquies in quick succession as the second act opens in Caesar . The gist of the first lies in the remark : He would be crowned . How that might change his nature , there's the question ...
... rhetorical - speaking . Brutus speaks three soliloquies in quick succession as the second act opens in Caesar . The gist of the first lies in the remark : He would be crowned . How that might change his nature , there's the question ...
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The Mysteries | 25 |
Morality Drama | 45 |
Shakespearean Structures and Language | 51 |
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The History of English Soliloquy: Aeschylus to Shakespeare Lloyd A. Skiffington Visualização de excertos - 1985 |
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