Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 38Gale Research Company, 1998 |
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Page 91
... bed - trick in All's Well , sometimes described as a mere plot - mechanism taken over from the source and regrettably out of key with the play's realism , may be seen as Helena's very personal choice , reflecting the complicated ...
... bed - trick in All's Well , sometimes described as a mere plot - mechanism taken over from the source and regrettably out of key with the play's realism , may be seen as Helena's very personal choice , reflecting the complicated ...
Page 119
... bed - trick— the substitution of one body for the expected lover . Violetta , requesting that she , rather than Imperia , join Fontinelle in the back room : " lodge me in thy private bed , Where ( in supposed follie ) he may end ...
... bed - trick— the substitution of one body for the expected lover . Violetta , requesting that she , rather than Imperia , join Fontinelle in the back room : " lodge me in thy private bed , Where ( in supposed follie ) he may end ...
Page 121
... bed - trick is brilliantly self - damning . Pulled from Imperia's bed , Fontinelle breaks into rhapsodic verse . He will die for the woman he thinks to be Imperia , for she has “ immor- tal joyes " in her eyes . Yet the eyes he ...
... bed - trick is brilliantly self - damning . Pulled from Imperia's bed , Fontinelle breaks into rhapsodic verse . He will die for the woman he thinks to be Imperia , for she has “ immor- tal joyes " in her eyes . Yet the eyes he ...
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