The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean TragedyUniversity of Delaware Press, 1985 - 254 sider Shakespeare's idiom is an aggregate of archaic modes of speech and codes of conduct. This book attempts to make that idiom more accessible and, in the process, to illuminate the significance of heroic concepts to a study of Shakespeare's tragedies and histories. |
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... character and idiom : conventional modes of speech and action are sufficient to define heroic character , and each hero functions more as a representative of a certain type of heroism than as a distin- guishable tragic personality . By ...
... character and idiom : conventional modes of speech and action are sufficient to define heroic character , and each hero functions more as a representative of a certain type of heroism than as a distin- guishable tragic personality . By ...
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... character . Only in retrospect — and the moment of discovery will differ for each of us - will the audience appreciate that rhetoric and character are distinct from one another . Antony's idiom shifts , not for the reason York's shifts ...
... character . Only in retrospect — and the moment of discovery will differ for each of us - will the audience appreciate that rhetoric and character are distinct from one another . Antony's idiom shifts , not for the reason York's shifts ...
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... character's behavior . They could invoke a world of ideas and values that the audience , conditioned by years of play - going , would readily comprehend , and at the same time rep- resent archaic standards against which characters could ...
... character's behavior . They could invoke a world of ideas and values that the audience , conditioned by years of play - going , would readily comprehend , and at the same time rep- resent archaic standards against which characters could ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Heroism in the Early Plays | 26 |
A Repudiation of the Past | 51 |
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