John Gay's The Beggar's OperaHarold Bloom Chelsea House Publishers, 1988 - 143 Seiten |
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... human creature can never afford to do ) and give way to the " spleen " and despair - the spleen which is the despair ... human infant to whose desires this life is essentially inadequate ; King Lear found a mystical pathos in the fact ...
... human creature can never afford to do ) and give way to the " spleen " and despair - the spleen which is the despair ... human infant to whose desires this life is essentially inadequate ; King Lear found a mystical pathos in the fact ...
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... human emphasis on money and the notion of human beings as animals . Men become wolves , Filch says quite explicitly , because of the feminine demand for money . And since , as other songs and comments in the play make abundantly clear ...
... human emphasis on money and the notion of human beings as animals . Men become wolves , Filch says quite explicitly , because of the feminine demand for money . And since , as other songs and comments in the play make abundantly clear ...
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... human beings , ultimately it is money . Fierce punitive measures dispose of the weak , the poor , the unlucky in such a society : this brings us to the matter of hanging , the source of the third major pattern of imagery . Love , death ...
... human beings , ultimately it is money . Fierce punitive measures dispose of the weak , the poor , the unlucky in such a society : this brings us to the matter of hanging , the source of the third major pattern of imagery . Love , death ...
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Mockpastoral as the Cult | 5 |
Mercenary Fathers Possessive Daughters | 37 |
The Beggars Triumph | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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