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1、GeorgeWashingtonUniversityHazlittandthe"Design"ofShakespeareanTragedy:A"Character"CriticRevisitedAuthor(s):JohnKinnairdSource:ShakespeareQuarterly,Vol.28,No.1(Winter,1977),pp.22-39Publishedby:FolgerShakespeareLibraryinassociationwithGeorgeWashingtonUniv
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4、.FolgerShakespeareLibraryandGeorgeWashingtonUniversityarecollaboratingwithJSTORtodigitize,preserveandextendaccesstoShakespeareQuarterly.http://www.jstor.orgHazlittandthe"Design"OfShakespeareanTragedy:A"Character"CriticRevisitedJOHNKINNAIRDHAKESPEARALONE
5、[amongthedramatistsofhisage]seemedto.standoverhiswork....Hesawtotheendofwhathewasabout,andwiththesamefacultyoflendinghimselftotheimpulsesofNatureandtheimpressionofthemoment,neverforgotthathehimselfhadatasktoperform,northeplacewhicheachfigureoughttooccup
6、yinhisgeneraldesign"(6.215).'ThisisHazlitt,writingin1819,andsoundingratherunlikehimself-unlike,thatis,theprototypical"char-acter"criticthatheistraditionallyassumedtobe."Character"criticsarenotsupposedtobeinterestedinthe"design"ofaplay,andHazlitthasbeena
7、ccusedofindulginginsuchfondhabitsofthebreedasignor-ing"action"and"context,""abstracting"charactersfromtheplay,andfraternizingfamiliarly(making"friendsforlife")withthedramatispersonae.2Thereis,nodoubt,considerablebasisinfactforthesecharges,andIamnotabout
8、toproposethatCharactersofShakespear'sPlaysisreallyastudyofdramaticform.ButitisneverthelesstruethatHazlitt,atleast1ReferencestoWilliamHazlittthroughoutaretoCompleteWorks,ed.P.P.Howe,21vols.(London:J.M.DentandSons,1930-34).Spacefor