The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 1A. Leathley, 1766 |
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... play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his cenes are occupied only by men , who act and fpeak as the reader thinks that he fhould himfelf have fpoken or acted on the fame occafion : Even where ...
... play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his cenes are occupied only by men , who act and fpeak as the reader thinks that he fhould himfelf have fpoken or acted on the fame occafion : Even where ...
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... play the buf- foon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated when the Danish Ufurper is represented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preferves the effential character , is ...
... play the buf- foon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated when the Danish Ufurper is represented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preferves the effential character , is ...
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... play of Hamlet is opened , without impropriety , by two fentinels ; Iago bellows at Brabantio's window , with out injury to the scheme of the play , though in terms which a modern audience would not eafily endure ; the character of ...
... play of Hamlet is opened , without impropriety , by two fentinels ; Iago bellows at Brabantio's window , with out injury to the scheme of the play , though in terms which a modern audience would not eafily endure ; the character of ...
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... play is the end of expectation . To the unities of time and place he has fhewn no regard , and perhaps a nearer view of the principles on which they stand will diminish their value , and with- draw from them the veneration which , from ...
... play is the end of expectation . To the unities of time and place he has fhewn no regard , and perhaps a nearer view of the principles on which they stand will diminish their value , and with- draw from them the veneration which , from ...
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... arifing from the impoffibility of paf- fing the first hour at Alexandria , and the next at Rome , fuppofes , that when the play opens the fpectator really imagines imagines himself at Alexandria , and believes that his walk PREFACE . XVII.
... arifing from the impoffibility of paf- fing the first hour at Alexandria , and the next at Rome , fuppofes , that when the play opens the fpectator really imagines imagines himself at Alexandria , and believes that his walk PREFACE . XVII.
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