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... Elizabethan types . He is a more satisfactory , because a more consistent , ] character than Leucippus in Cupid's Revenge , but compared to other Elizabethan heroes he does not seem altogether tragic . Unlike most of them he has not ...
... Elizabethan types . He is a more satisfactory , because a more consistent , ] character than Leucippus in Cupid's Revenge , but compared to other Elizabethan heroes he does not seem altogether tragic . Unlike most of them he has not ...
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... Elizabethan education , was one of several tests of the student's ability to improvise , and the supreme test of his oratorical powers . In his epis- tles he had written imaginary letters from Paris to Helen or from Alcibiades to ...
... Elizabethan education , was one of several tests of the student's ability to improvise , and the supreme test of his oratorical powers . In his epis- tles he had written imaginary letters from Paris to Helen or from Alcibiades to ...
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... Elizabethan dramatists found a declamatory style closely related to the Sophistic tradition recorded by the Elder Seneca for the benefit of his sons . The flowers of rhetoric bloom luxuriantly in Senecan tragedy . As Elizabethan tragedy ...
... Elizabethan dramatists found a declamatory style closely related to the Sophistic tradition recorded by the Elder Seneca for the benefit of his sons . The flowers of rhetoric bloom luxuriantly in Senecan tragedy . As Elizabethan tragedy ...
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