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... comic half is a centre gradually expanding into a circumference . The Odyssey , in its comic half , presents a very different plot , at least superficially , from the typical New Comedy plot of several centuries later . In that plot , a ...
... comic half is a centre gradually expanding into a circumference . The Odyssey , in its comic half , presents a very different plot , at least superficially , from the typical New Comedy plot of several centuries later . In that plot , a ...
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... New Comedy fea- tures , but his main focus is less on social than on natural and sexual images of renewed fertility ... typical of Shakespeare's comic structures . But when we take the two pro- blem comedies together , we get a greatly ...
... New Comedy fea- tures , but his main focus is less on social than on natural and sexual images of renewed fertility ... typical of Shakespeare's comic structures . But when we take the two pro- blem comedies together , we get a greatly ...
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... typical New Comedy action symbolizes , comple- ments this feeling . Thus if a creative artist ( we may think for example of William Morris in the nineteenth century ) becomes deeply committed to social movements intended to bring about ...
... typical New Comedy action symbolizes , comple- ments this feeling . Thus if a creative artist ( we may think for example of William Morris in the nineteenth century ) becomes deeply committed to social movements intended to bring about ...
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