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Page 128
... drama ; and meanwhile fabulous invention is busy in many minds , embroidering the tale with illustrative anecdotes . Thucydides brushes away these extravagant and unattested accretions , and reduces the legend again to what seemed to ...
... drama ; and meanwhile fabulous invention is busy in many minds , embroidering the tale with illustrative anecdotes . Thucydides brushes away these extravagant and unattested accretions , and reduces the legend again to what seemed to ...
Page 130
... drama , shapes itself as a sort of crust over certain beliefs which harden into that outline . When this has happened , the beliefs themselves — the content of the mould - may gradually be modified and transmuted in many ways . Finally ...
... drama , shapes itself as a sort of crust over certain beliefs which harden into that outline . When this has happened , the beliefs themselves — the content of the mould - may gradually be modified and transmuted in many ways . Finally ...
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... dramatic ; it would not be " objective ” in the realist sense . The situa- tion , the moral and metaphysical " scene " of the drama , is presented only as one character after another sees and reflects it ; and the action of the drama as ...
... dramatic ; it would not be " objective ” in the realist sense . The situa- tion , the moral and metaphysical " scene " of the drama , is presented only as one character after another sees and reflects it ; and the action of the drama as ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
HOMER Odysseus Scar | 30 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
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