A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... character before he wrote Richard III . It has been plausibly said that Marlowe furnished a model for this play in the creation of dramas controlled by a single dominant character ; but it may be that Shakespeare's experience in writing ...
... character before he wrote Richard III . It has been plausibly said that Marlowe furnished a model for this play in the creation of dramas controlled by a single dominant character ; but it may be that Shakespeare's experience in writing ...
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... character , a literary type modeled and named after the Charac- teroi of the Greek psychologist Theophrastus . Theophrastus became known in Latin translation in 1592 and in English in 1616. He wrote short pieces in prose in which he ...
... character , a literary type modeled and named after the Charac- teroi of the Greek psychologist Theophrastus . Theophrastus became known in Latin translation in 1592 and in English in 1616. He wrote short pieces in prose in which he ...
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... character after character the psychological subtleties that justified the poet in his representation . Hazlitt fell in with the romantic interpretation of Hamlet as a character exemplifying ( in Coleridge's words ) ' an overbalance in ...
... character after character the psychological subtleties that justified the poet in his representation . Hazlitt fell in with the romantic interpretation of Hamlet as a character exemplifying ( in Coleridge's words ) ' an overbalance in ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
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