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Macbeth
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ISBN: 1281728969 9786611728960 030013827X 9780300138276 9781281728968 0300106548 9780300106541 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey of surrender to evil as does Macbeth. A timeless tragedy about the nature of ambition, conscience, and the human heart, the play holds a profound grip on the Western imagination.

Focus on Macbeth
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ISBN: 0415612179 1315018306 113655873X 9781136558733 9781315018300 0415352762 9780415352765 9781136558801 9781136558870 9780415612173 1299866549 1136558802 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxon [England] : Routledge,

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First published in 1982.

Macbeth exercises a strange influence over readers and theatre audiences: the words of the text offer no easy clue to meaning or significance and in dramatic structure the play is very different from other Shakespearean tragedies. Many kinds of study are needed in order to understand the tragedy of Macbeth and this book provides a wide range of studies that respect the individuality of the text and examine it from different viewpoints.

Contents include: Themes and Structure; Characterization and Narrative, Visual Effects, Performance


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Macbeth : “What's done cannot be undone.”.
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ISBN: 1785436031 9781785436031 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Copyright Group,

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Macbeth multiplied : negotiating historical and medial difference between Shakespeare and Verdi
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ISBN: 9042018879 9401202435 1423791223 9781423791225 9789401202435 9789042018877 Year: 2005 Volume: 93 Publisher: Amsterdam : Rodopi,

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In what sense did Shakespeare's representation of the Weird Sisters participate in the rewriting of village witchcraft? Was it likely to "encourage the Sword"? Did opera's specific medial conditions offer Verdi special opportunities to justify the presence of stage witches more than three centuries later? How valid is the parallel between 19th century opera and the voyeurism of madhouse spectacle? Was Shakespeare's play really engaged in the project of exorcizing Queen Elizabeth's cultural memory? What does Verdi's chorus of Scottish refugees have to do with shifting representations of 'the people'? These are among the questions tackled in this study. It provides the first in-depth comparison of Shakespeare's and Verdi's Macbeth that is written expressly from the perspective of current Shakespearean criticism whilst striving to do justice to the topic's musicological dimension at the same time. Exploring to what extent the play's matrix of possible readings is distinct from Verdi's two operatic versions, the book seeks to relate such differences both to the historical contexts of the works' geneses and to their respective medial conditions. In doing so, it pays particular attention to shifting negotiations of witchcraft, gender, madness, and kingship. The study eventually broadens its discussion to consider other Shakespearean plays and their operatic offshoots, reflecting on some possible relations between historical and medial difference.


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Shakespeare's Big Men : Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment
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ISBN: 9781442650077 9781442622166 1442622164 1442650079 1442622172 Year: 2018 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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Shakespeare's Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies--Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus--through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Generative anthropology's theory of the origins of human society explains the social function of tragedy: to defer our resentment against the "big men" who dominate society by letting us first identify with the tragic protagonist and his resentment, then allowing us to repudiate the protagonist's resentful rage and achieve theatrical catharsis. Drawing on this hypothesis, Richard van Oort offers inspired readings of Shakespeare's plays and their representations of desire, resentment, guilt, and evil. His analysis revives the universal spirit in Shakespearean criticism, illustrating how the plays can serve as a way to understand the ethical dilemma of resentment and discover within ourselves the nature of the human experience."--

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Thematology --- Sociology of literature --- Shakespeare, William --- Men in literature. --- Resentment in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- Guilt in literature. --- Evil in literature. --- Protagonists (Persons) in literature. --- Anthropology in literature. --- Literature and anthropology. --- Evil in literature --- Good in literature --- Anthropology and literature --- Anthropology --- Literature --- Shakespeare, William, --- Sciarrino, Salvatore. --- Boito, Arrigo, --- Verdi, Giuseppe, --- Geach, Ken. --- Coriolanus (Shakespeare, William) --- Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) --- Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, William) --- Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- Othello (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragoedy of Othello, the Moore of Venice (Shakespeare, William) --- William Shakespeare's The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedy of Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- Illustrated Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- Shakespeare's The tragedie of Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedie of Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- Macbeth for young people (Shakespeare, William) --- Works of William Shakespeare (Shakespeare, William) --- Shakespeare's Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- William Shakespeare's Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, William) --- Shakespeare's The Tragedie of Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedie of Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, William) --- Ha-mu-lei-tʻe (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (Shakespeare, William) --- Three-text Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragicall historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke (Shakespeare, William) --- Shakspeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Shakespeare, William) --- First edition of the tragedy of Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) --- Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) --- Shakspere's Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) --- Shakespeare's Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) --- First quarto of Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) --- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Shakespeare, William) --- Amleto (Shakespeare, William) --- William Shakespeare's The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Shakespeare, William) --- Works of William Shakespeare (1865) (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedy of Coriolanus (Shakespeare, William) --- Good and evil in literature.


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The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi
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ISBN: 022609507X 9780226095073 Year: 2013 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857-from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, La traviata, and Aroldo. But while Basevi's work is still widely cited and discussed-and nowhere more so than in the English-speaking world-no translation of the entire volume has previously been available. The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi fills this gap, at the same time providing an invaluable critical apparatus and commentary on Basevi's work. As a contemporary of Verdi and a trained musician, erudite scholar, and critic conversant with current and past operatic repertories, Basevi presented pointed discussion of the operas and their historical context, offering today's readers a unique window into many aspects of operatic culture, and culture in general, in Verdi's Italy. He wrote with precision on formal aspects, use of melody and orchestration, and other compositional features, which made his study an acknowledged model for the growing field of music criticism. Carefully annotated and with an engaging introduction and detailed glossary by editor Stefano Castelvecchi, this translation illuminates Basevi's musical and historical references as well as aspects of his language that remain difficult to grasp even for Italian readers. Making Basevi's important contribution to our understanding of Verdi and his operas available to a broad audience for the first time, The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi will delight scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.

Of philosophers and kings : political philosophy in Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear
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ISBN: 0802086055 080203571X 9786612014635 1282014633 1442677996 9781442677999 9781282014633 9780802035714 9780802086051 Year: 2001 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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"This work argues that Shakespeare was as great a philosopher as he was a poet, and that his greatness as a poet derived even more from his power as a thinker than from his genius for linguistic expression. Accordingly, Leon Craig's interpretation of the plays - focusing primarily on Macbeth and King Lear, but including extensive comments on Othello, The Winter's Tale, and Measure for Measure - are intended to demonstrate what can be gained from reading Shakespeare 'philosophically.'"--Jacket

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Politics in literature --- Politiek in de literatuur --- Politique dans la littérature --- Politics in literature. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Knowledge --- Political science. --- Political science in literature --- Šekspir, Vil'jam --- Sciarrino, Salvatore. --- Shakespeare, William --- Political science --- Shakespear, William, --- Shakspeare, William, --- Šekʻspiri, Uiliam, --- Saixpēr, Gouilliam, --- Shakspere, William, --- Shikisbīr, Wilyam, --- Szekspir, Wiliam, --- Šekspyras, --- Shekspir, Vilʹi︠a︡m, --- Šekspir, Viljem, --- Tsikinya-chaka, --- Sha-shih-pi-ya, --- Shashibiya, --- Sheḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Shaḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Syeiksŭpʻio, --- Shekspir, V. --- Szekspir, William, --- Shakespeare, Guglielmo, --- Shake-speare, William, --- Sha-ō, --- Şekspir, --- Shekspir, Uiliam, --- Shekspir, U. --- Šekspir, Vilijam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Viliyam, --- Shakspir, --- Shekspyr, Vyli︠e︡m, --- Şekspir, Velyam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Villiyam, --- Shēkʻspʻiyr, Vlilliam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākavi, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākaviya, --- Sheḳspier, Ṿilyam, --- Shēkʻspir, --- Shakespeare, --- Śeksper, --- Шекспир, Вильям, --- Шекспир, Уильям, --- שייקספיר, וויליאם, --- שייקספיר, וו., --- שיקספיר, וויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, וילים, --- שכספיר, ו׳ --- שעפקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, וויליאם --- שעקספיער, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, ווילליאם --- שעקספיער, וו., --- שעקספיר --- שעקספיר, וו --- שעקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיר, וויליאמ --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם, --- שעקספיר, וו., --- שעקספיר, װיליאם, --- שעקספיר, װילליאם, --- שעקספיר, װ., --- שעקספער --- שעקספער, וויליאמ --- שקספיר --- שקספיר, וו --- שקספיר, וויליאם --- שקספיר, וויליאם, --- שקספיר, ווילים, --- שקספיר, וילאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם, --- שקספיר, ויליים, --- שקספיר, וילים --- שקספיר, וילים, --- شاكسبير، وليم --- شاكسپير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليام --- شكسبير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليم، --- شكسبير، و. --- شكسپير، وليم --- شكسپير، ويليام --- شيكسبير، وليام --- شيكسبير، وليام.، --- شيكسبير، وليم --- شکسبير، وليم --- وليم شکسبير --- 沙士北亞威廉姆, --- 沙士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉, --- 莎士比亞, --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- King Lear (Shakespeare, William) --- Great Britain. --- Shakespeare's King Lear (Shakespeare, William) --- Shakespeare's The tragedie of King Lear (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedie of King Lear (Shakespeare, William) --- M. William Shake-speare, his true chronicle history of the life and death of King Lear, and his three daughters (Shakespeare, William) --- True chronicle history of the life and death of King Lear, and his three daughters (Shakespeare, William) --- Complete King Lear, 1608-1623 (Shakespeare, William) --- Parallel King Lear, 1608-1623 (Shakespeare, William) --- Liŏ Wang (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedy of King Lear (Shakespeare, William) --- Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear (Shakespeare, William) --- King Lear experience (Shakespeare, William) --- History of King Lear (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedy of Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- Illustrated Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- Shakespeare's The tragedie of Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- Tragedie of Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- Macbeth for young people (Shakespeare, William) --- Works of William Shakespeare (Shakespeare, William) --- Shakespeare's Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- William Shakespeare's Macbeth (Shakespeare, William) --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales


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Acting in the night : Macbeth and the places of the Civil War
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ISBN: 128327728X 9786613277282 0520947444 9780520947443 9781283277280 9780520251861 0520251865 6613277282 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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What can the performance of a single play on one specific night tell us about the world this event inhabited so briefly? Alexander Nemerov takes a performance of Macbeth in Washington, DC on October 17, 1863-with Abraham Lincoln in attendance-to explore this question and illuminate American art, politics, technology, and life as it was being lived. Nemerov's inspiration is Wallace Stevens and his poem "Anecdote of the Jar," in which a single object organizes the wilderness around it in the consciousness of the poet. For Nemerov, that evening's performance of Macbeth reached across the tragedy of civil war to acknowledge the horrors and emptiness of a world it tried and ultimately failed to change.

The meaning of Shakespeare.
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ISBN: 0226300412 0226300420 9786612069888 1282069888 0226300390 9780226300399 Year: 1960 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius.

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English literature. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Shakespeare, William, --- Shakespeare, William --- Shakespear, William, --- Shakspeare, William, --- Šekʻspiri, Uiliam, --- Saixpēr, Gouilliam, --- Shakspere, William, --- Shikisbīr, Wilyam, --- Szekspir, Wiliam, --- Šekspyras, --- Shekspir, Vilʹi︠a︡m, --- Šekspir, Viljem, --- Tsikinya-chaka, --- Sha-shih-pi-ya, --- Shashibiya, --- Sheḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Shaḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Syeiksŭpʻio, --- Shekspir, V. --- Szekspir, William, --- Shakespeare, Guglielmo, --- Shake-speare, William, --- Sha-ō, --- Şekspir, --- Shekspir, Uiliam, --- Shekspir, U. --- Šekspir, Vilijam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Viliyam, --- Shakspir, --- Shekspyr, Vyli︠e︡m, --- Şekspir, Velyam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Villiyam, --- Shēkʻspʻiyr, Vlilliam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākavi, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākaviya, --- Sheḳspier, Ṿilyam, --- Shēkʻspir, --- Shakespeare, --- Śeksper, --- Шекспир, Вильям, --- Шекспир, Уильям, --- שייקספיר, וויליאם, --- שייקספיר, וו., --- שיקספיר, וויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, וילים, --- שכספיר, ו׳ --- שעפקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, וויליאם --- שעקספיער, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, ווילליאם --- שעקספיער, וו., --- שעקספיר --- שעקספיר, וו --- שעקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיר, וויליאמ --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם, --- שעקספיר, וו., --- שעקספיר, װיליאם, --- שעקספיר, װילליאם, --- שעקספיר, װ., --- שעקספער --- שעקספער, וויליאמ --- שקספיר --- שקספיר, וו --- שקספיר, וויליאם --- שקספיר, וויליאם, --- שקספיר, ווילים, --- שקספיר, וילאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם, --- שקספיר, ויליים, --- שקספיר, וילים --- שקספיר, וילים, --- شاكسبير، وليم --- شاكسپير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليام --- شكسبير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليم، --- شكسبير، و. --- شكسپير، وليم --- شكسپير، ويليام --- شيكسبير، وليام --- شيكسبير، وليام.، --- شيكسبير، وليم --- شکسبير، وليم --- وليم شکسبير --- 沙士北亞威廉姆, --- 沙士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉, --- 莎士比亞, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- tempest, winters tale, cymbeline, pericles, coriolanus, antony and cleopatra, timon of athens, king lear, macbeth, othello, measure, alls well, troilus cressida, tragedies, comedies, problem plays, drama, theater, performing arts, shakespeare, british literature, canon, revenge, love, romance, humor, folklore, trojan war, ambition, murder, jealousy, marriage, history. --- Literature. --- Shakespeare-Macbeth-Criticisms. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship


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The idea of a theater: a study of ten plays; the art of drama in changing perspective
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ISBN: 0691061432 0691649103 1400875137 9781400875139 9780691061436 0691012881 0691622310 9780691649108 Year: 1972 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press,

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An original and beautifully written book on changing perspectives in the art of theater. Through a study of nine plays-Oedipus Rex, Bérénice, Tristan und Isolde, Hamlet, Ghosts, The Cherry Orchard, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Noah, Murder in the Cathedral-the author shows how all playwrights seek to "hold the mirror up to nature" and how in this respect the art of drama is always the same, varying only with the philosophical and aesthetic concepts of each age. The Idea of a Theater will delight both readers with a special interest in drama and those who read drama as a source of insight into man's nature and man's changing ideas of himself. Originally published in 1949.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Drama --- Criticism --- History and criticism. --- Acting. --- Anagoge. --- Anecdote. --- Aristotelianism. --- Awareness. --- Before the Revolution. --- Brothel. --- Caricature. --- City Of. --- Classicism. --- Cyclorama (theater). --- Dithyramb. --- Dolce Stil Novo. --- Drama. --- Dramatization. --- Dramaturgy. --- Drawing room. --- Episode. --- Escapism. --- Farce. --- Fine art. --- Fortinbras. --- Genre. --- Gilbert Murray. --- Gilbert and Sullivan. --- Good and evil. --- Hamlet's Father. --- Hamlet. --- Harold Clurman. --- Heartbreak House. --- High Spirits (musical). --- Hubris. --- Illustration. --- Imagery. --- Improvisation. --- In Society. --- In This World. --- In the Life. --- Infatuation. --- Irony. --- Jacques Copeau. --- Jean Cocteau. --- Jeux. --- Kilroy was here. --- Laertes (Hamlet). --- Life Itself. --- Literature. --- Louis Jouvet. --- Luigi Pirandello. --- Macduff (Macbeth). --- Major Barbara. --- Melodrama. --- Metaphysical poets. --- Mimesis. --- Modernity. --- Molière. --- Murder in the Cathedral. --- Narrative thread. --- Narrative. --- Of Human Action. --- Omnipotence. --- Oscar Wilde. --- Parody. --- Plautus. --- Play (theatre). --- Playwright. --- Poetic realism. --- Poetry. --- Polonius. --- Primitivism. --- Purgatorio. --- Realism (arts). --- Reductio ad absurdum. --- Restoration comedy. --- Revenge play. --- Rhetorical device. --- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play). --- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. --- Scaramouche. --- Sensibility. --- Shakespearean tragedy. --- Six Characters in Search of an Author. --- Sophistication. --- Sophocles. --- Sound effect. --- Struggle (TV series). --- Suspension of disbelief. --- Terence. --- The Comic. --- The Infernal Machine (play). --- The Realist. --- The Spirit of the Age. --- The Various. --- The Very Idea. --- Theatre. --- Theatricality. --- Tragedy. --- Valet. --- Ventriloquism. --- William Shakespeare.

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