The Round Table: Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Sons, 1960 - 366 pages |
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Page 239
... Caliban , whose figure acquires a classical dignity in the comparison . any part The character of Caliban is generally thought ( and justly so ) to be one of the author's master - pieces . It is not indeed pleasant to see this character ...
... Caliban , whose figure acquires a classical dignity in the comparison . any part The character of Caliban is generally thought ( and justly so ) to be one of the author's master - pieces . It is not indeed pleasant to see this character ...
Page 240
... Caliban shews the superiority of natural capacity over greater knowledge and greater folly ; and in a former scene , when Ariel frightens them with his music , Caliban to encourage them accounts for it in the eloquent poetry of the ...
... Caliban shews the superiority of natural capacity over greater knowledge and greater folly ; and in a former scene , when Ariel frightens them with his music , Caliban to encourage them accounts for it in the eloquent poetry of the ...
Page 241
... Caliban . Shakespear has , as it were by design , drawn off from Caliban the elements of whatever is ethereal and refined , to compound them in the unearthly mould of Ariel . Nothing was ever more finely con- ceived than this contrast ...
... Caliban . Shakespear has , as it were by design , drawn off from Caliban the elements of whatever is ethereal and refined , to compound them in the unearthly mould of Ariel . Nothing was ever more finely con- ceived than this contrast ...
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On the Love of Life | 1 |
On Modern Comedy | 7 |
On Mr Keans Iago | 14 |
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