Poems and PlaysDent, 1975 - 258 pages |
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Page xxiii
... play is about the stripping away of disguise . " This play is a paradox : its characters are all as natural as were ever drawn , and yet they do nothing probable nor possible from the begin- ning of the play to the end . No house of a ...
... play is about the stripping away of disguise . " This play is a paradox : its characters are all as natural as were ever drawn , and yet they do nothing probable nor possible from the begin- ning of the play to the end . No house of a ...
Page xxiv
... play comes from this intelligence . Marlow and Hastings mistake him for a bumpkin : their narrow social vision tells them that the young squire cannot be at a low inn , and he uses this narrow perspective to trap them . Because they are ...
... play comes from this intelligence . Marlow and Hastings mistake him for a bumpkin : their narrow social vision tells them that the young squire cannot be at a low inn , and he uses this narrow perspective to trap them . Because they are ...
Page 221
... play was not well received : the taste of the public inclined towards ' genteel ' or sentimental comedy , and Goldsmith's play , which was a reaction against the artificiality of this mode towards the more naturalistic— and funnier ...
... play was not well received : the taste of the public inclined towards ' genteel ' or sentimental comedy , and Goldsmith's play , which was a reaction against the artificiality of this mode towards the more naturalistic— and funnier ...
Contents
Prologue of Laberius | 133 |
Description of an Authors BedChamber | 139 |
an Oratorio | 147 |
Copyright | |
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