The Augustan VisionWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974 - 318 páginas |
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... play , Rowe prunes the exuberant Renais- sance action and imposes a much tighter neoclassic framework . The setting is nominally Genoa , but it could as well be Illyria . The play revolves around the inconstant Calista , undone by the ...
... play , Rowe prunes the exuberant Renais- sance action and imposes a much tighter neoclassic framework . The setting is nominally Genoa , but it could as well be Illyria . The play revolves around the inconstant Calista , undone by the ...
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... play - within - the - play to create a shimmering , evanescent effect in which fiction and reality become blurred . The nominal hero Luckless gets entangled with the characters of his own puppets ; the show is interrupted by a vexatious ...
... play - within - the - play to create a shimmering , evanescent effect in which fiction and reality become blurred . The nominal hero Luckless gets entangled with the characters of his own puppets ; the show is interrupted by a vexatious ...
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... Play , with a pox ! ' ) . This is more than a neat denouement ; it leads us to question the confines of art , as a play like Buckingham's Rehearsal never does . Moreover , the play is splendidly uncondescending . As with The Shepherd's ...
... Play , with a pox ! ' ) . This is more than a neat denouement ; it leads us to question the confines of art , as a play like Buckingham's Rehearsal never does . Moreover , the play is splendidly uncondescending . As with The Shepherd's ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Landscape of the Age | 5 |
The Shape of Society | 7 |
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