| Characters Of Shakespeare's Plays Contributor(s): Hazlitt, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 1419112589 ISBN-13: 9781419112584 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: The secret of Falstaff's wit is for the most part a masterly presence of mind, an absolute self-possession, which nothing can disturb. His repartees are involuntary suggestions of his self-love; instinctive evasions of everything that threatens to interrupt the career of his triumphant jollity and self-complacency. His very size floats him out of all his difficulties in a sea of rich conceits; and he turns round on the pivot of his convenience, with every occasion and at a moment's warning. His natural repugnance to every unpleasant thought or circumstance of itself makes light of objections, and provokes the most extravagant and licentious answers in his own justification. His indifference to truth puts no check upon his invention, and the more improbable and unexpected his contrivances are, the more happily does he seem to be delivered of them, the anticipation of their effect acting as a stimulus to the gaiety of his fancy. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare - Drama | Shakespeare - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
| Dewey: 822.330 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (0.92 lbs) 240 pages |
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