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Page 153
... play as it now exists ; for it is the last act that gives the play whatever artistic purpose it has . But if this man was Shakespeare , as I suppose every one believes he was , then all the wretched stuff he took over becomes his , by ...
... play as it now exists ; for it is the last act that gives the play whatever artistic purpose it has . But if this man was Shakespeare , as I suppose every one believes he was , then all the wretched stuff he took over becomes his , by ...
Page 160
... play makes on us when we see it acted may differ from the impression it makes when we read it in cold type . Is it to be argued from this that criticism , to be valid , must keep within the impression made by the play in the theatre ...
... play makes on us when we see it acted may differ from the impression it makes when we read it in cold type . Is it to be argued from this that criticism , to be valid , must keep within the impression made by the play in the theatre ...
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... play means to him . The reason is a simple one : the play , as a work of art , has no other existence . To limit interpretation to what the play may have meant to Elizabethans is , frankly , to exclude the existence of the play as a ...
... play means to him . The reason is a simple one : the play , as a work of art , has no other existence . To limit interpretation to what the play may have meant to Elizabethans is , frankly , to exclude the existence of the play as a ...
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H St John Thackeray Communicated November 1929 | 15 |
EARLY ITALIAN ENGRAVING Annual Lecture on Aspects of Art | 45 |
WANDERING ENGLISHMEN IN ITALY Annual Italian Lecture | 61 |
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