Shakespeare as a Dramatic Thinker: A Popular Illustration of Fiction as the Experimental Side of Philosophy |
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accident Angelo Antony appears Banquo become brings character clash Cleopatra comedy Comedy of Errors COMEDY OF SITUATION comic complication Coriolanus crime crown Cymbeline death dramatised Duke English ENVELOPING ACTION evil fall Falstaff fate father Faulconbridge force Friar Hamlet hath heart Henry the Fourth Henry the Sixth hero honour human humour Iago ideal Imogen individual interest intrigue irony Julia Juliet Julius Cæsar Katherine Lear Leonato Leontes Lucentio Macbeth main plot Merchant of Venice moral motive movement murder nature nemesis noble Othello passion pathos personages play Posthumus prince principle Proteus Queen recognise relief restoration retribution Richard rise Roman Romeo Romeo and Juliet ruin scheme secondary plot seen Shakespeare side Silvia situation soul speak spirit stage story Subaction supernatural thee things thou thought Thurio tion tone tragedy Tranio Twelfth Night Tybalt underplot Valentine villany wife Winter's Tale wooing word wrong
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Page 262 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Page 101 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Page 147 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 28 - Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience...
Page 302 - If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours, nor your hate.
Page 285 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Page 201 - tis no matter ; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no : or an arm ? no : or take away the grief of a wound 1 no.
Page 101 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 320 - Ham. Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting, That would not let me sleep : methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.
Page 326 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.