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... pastoral setting must have seemed particularly unremarkable , for pastoral drama in the 1630s was an especially fashionable form . Pastoral drama owes its inception to Italy , and much of its impact in England is traceable to two ...
... pastoral setting must have seemed particularly unremarkable , for pastoral drama in the 1630s was an especially fashionable form . Pastoral drama owes its inception to Italy , and much of its impact in England is traceable to two ...
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... pastoral drama is inherently political , its aesthetic refinement functioning to promote a vision of society which places its patrons at the center . Louis Montrose's descrip- tion of Elizabethan pastoral serves equally well to ...
... pastoral drama is inherently political , its aesthetic refinement functioning to promote a vision of society which places its patrons at the center . Louis Montrose's descrip- tion of Elizabethan pastoral serves equally well to ...
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... pastoral of love , " sentimental , nostalgic , and above all politically conservative.25 Instead Comus is an example of what might be termed " prophetic pastoral , " a type which derives from Christian readings of Vergil's Fourth ...
... pastoral of love , " sentimental , nostalgic , and above all politically conservative.25 Instead Comus is an example of what might be termed " prophetic pastoral , " a type which derives from Christian readings of Vergil's Fourth ...
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The Making of a Man of Letters? | 19 |
Miltons Second | 29 |
Cinquemani Through Milan and the Pennine Alps | 51 |
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