Essays 451 - 456
sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...
the work, communicating a haunting sense of despair and grief. Two subsidiary themes evolve from the primary motif, and seem to of...
Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor (BWV 826). Bachs Partitas are large, expansive musical compositions, which are comparable in length ...
between Richard and the audience so as to establish an immediate intimacy. He "remains in direct contact with the spectators thro...
days / I am determined to prove a villain" (I, i, 28-30). He is embracing his evil ambitions wholeheartedly, and with a clear und...
foul he is that we suffer a twinge of guilt for siding with him so readily. But we tend to do it anyway. The "New York Times" rev...