Periods of European Literature, Volume 8W. Blackwood, 1904 |
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... tragedy of Britannicus ( 1669 ) the spirit of Tacitus , who is the authority for the story , is felt , and the last line is a suffocating forecast of yet worse things than are transacted in the play . It was unpopular ; Shakespeare was ...
... tragedy of Britannicus ( 1669 ) the spirit of Tacitus , who is the authority for the story , is felt , and the last line is a suffocating forecast of yet worse things than are transacted in the play . It was unpopular ; Shakespeare was ...
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... tragedy , like comedy , tended to perish , not so much of imitation as of reversion . Comedy , it will be seen , had a sturdier life after Molière , though it inclined back to farce ; but tragedy was branded with the weakness of the ...
... tragedy , like comedy , tended to perish , not so much of imitation as of reversion . Comedy , it will be seen , had a sturdier life after Molière , though it inclined back to farce ; but tragedy was branded with the weakness of the ...
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... tragedy and comedy . But the fates of tragedy and of comedy were separate . The great difference is , that comedy pro- Conditions and fited by classicism to reach its perfection , while tragedy , so far from doing so , fell between two ...
... tragedy and comedy . But the fates of tragedy and of comedy were separate . The great difference is , that comedy pro- Conditions and fited by classicism to reach its perfection , while tragedy , so far from doing so , fell between two ...
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