general Flashcards
1
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A.C. Bradley
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‘the most painfully exciting and most terrible’
2
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L.C. Knight
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‘vividly particular rather than the vague and universal’
3
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Gordon Ross Smith
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‘possible people caught in a net of circumstance which their characters make them unable to escape’
4
Q
A.C. Bradley
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‘not only the most masterly of the tragedies in point of construction, but its method on construction is unusual…the conflict begins late, and advances without appreciable pause and with accelerating speed to the catastrophe’
5
Q
F.R. Leavis
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‘self-pride becomes stupidity, ferocious stupidity, an insane and self-deceiving passion’
6
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Empson
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‘the 52 uses of honest and honesty in Othello are a very queer business there is no other play in which Shakespeare worries a word like that’
