Shakspere and His PredecessorsC. Scribner's sons, 1988 - 555 pages |
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Page 19
... Italy is not within our present scope . It is sufficient to note how from the middle of the fourteenth century onward scholars and poets were busied in bringing to life again the buried past of the ancient world : how this movement was ...
... Italy is not within our present scope . It is sufficient to note how from the middle of the fourteenth century onward scholars and poets were busied in bringing to life again the buried past of the ancient world : how this movement was ...
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... Italy , why may not Shakspere have done the same ? Indeed , as Elze has urged with great force in his Essays on ... Italian atmosphere , no power of intuition , however transcendent , could impart to the poet a knowledge of positive ...
... Italy , why may not Shakspere have done the same ? Indeed , as Elze has urged with great force in his Essays on ... Italian atmosphere , no power of intuition , however transcendent , could impart to the poet a knowledge of positive ...
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... Italian comedy are introduced , but they are set amidst surroundings which suggest London or Stratford . In The Two ... Italy ' . Never again did he so magically reproduce the atmosphere of the South as in these dramas , the fruit , it ...
... Italian comedy are introduced , but they are set amidst surroundings which suggest London or Stratford . In The Two ... Italy ' . Never again did he so magically reproduce the atmosphere of the South as in these dramas , the fruit , it ...
Contents
THE EARLY RENAISSANCE DRAMA | 19 |
KYD LYLY and Peele | 62 |
ROBERT GREENE | 77 |
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