Milton and the Miltonic DrydenHarvard University Press, 1968 - 238 pages |
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Page 187
... Alexas ' rhetoric , easily manipulated by the schemer's conventional verbal tools of flattery , distorted logic , and lies . 7 Although Dryden found no such figure in Shake- speare's Antony and Cleopatra , he created in Alexas a ...
... Alexas ' rhetoric , easily manipulated by the schemer's conventional verbal tools of flattery , distorted logic , and lies . 7 Although Dryden found no such figure in Shake- speare's Antony and Cleopatra , he created in Alexas a ...
Page 188
... Alexas ' manipulation of Antony may be interpreted . When the play opens , we are presented with the figure of Alexas plotting his " designs " in order to keep Antony in Egypt . Ventidius ' entrance is then announced , and from the ...
... Alexas ' manipulation of Antony may be interpreted . When the play opens , we are presented with the figure of Alexas plotting his " designs " in order to keep Antony in Egypt . Ventidius ' entrance is then announced , and from the ...
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... Alexas ' opposite , and the hero . Ventidius , we have been told ( and the assertion is in harmony with the tradition to which the characterization belongs ) , is an honest man . Not for him the schemer's manipula- tion of language to ...
... Alexas ' opposite , and the hero . Ventidius , we have been told ( and the assertion is in harmony with the tradition to which the characterization belongs ) , is an honest man . Not for him the schemer's manipula- tion of language to ...
Contents
PART ONE Paradise Lost | 19 |
Satanic Rhetoric | 41 |
The Alterd Stile of Fallen Men | 69 |
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