How to Study Shakespeare (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Likewise to study a great drama successfully, to perceive and appreciate its symmetry, its unity, its power, its grandeur, it must be studied from the inside.

Art, says Ruskin, is human labor regulated by human design,' and this design, or evidence of active intellect in choice or arrangement, is the essential part of the To this dictum of Ruskin I add that of Pater: In literary, as in all other art, structure is all important. 1' To study a play successfully the plot, the element of design which pervades the play, the construction, must be clearly discerned.

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