The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928Hogarth Press, 1986 - 653 pagina's Written while Virginia Woolf worked on Orlando, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own, and including the complete text of The Common Reader, the essays in this volume explore subjects ranging from the world's greatest books to obscure English lives, confirming Woolf's faith in the value of writing and in the common reader she addresses. |
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Pagina 62
... Elizabethan play we are overcome by the extraordinary discrepancy between the Elizabethan view of reality and our own . The reality to which we have grown accus- tomed is , speaking roughly , based upon the life and death of some knight ...
... Elizabethan play we are overcome by the extraordinary discrepancy between the Elizabethan view of reality and our own . The reality to which we have grown accus- tomed is , speaking roughly , based upon the life and death of some knight ...
Pagina 64
... Elizabethan age by the public . Against that , however , is to be set the fact that the influence of the public was in many respects detestable . To its door we must lay the greatest infliction that Elizabethan drama puts upon us - the ...
... Elizabethan age by the public . Against that , however , is to be set the fact that the influence of the public was in many respects detestable . To its door we must lay the greatest infliction that Elizabethan drama puts upon us - the ...
Pagina 69
... Elizabethan drama . So we consort with Emperors and clowns , jewellers and unicorns , and laugh and exult and marvel at the splen- dour and humour and fantasy of it all . A noble rage consumes us when the curtain falls ; we are bored ...
... Elizabethan drama . So we consort with Emperors and clowns , jewellers and unicorns , and laugh and exult and marvel at the splen- dour and humour and fantasy of it all . A noble rage consumes us when the curtain falls ; we are bored ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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