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Replies | Post Reply | Shakespeare Queries From Genuinely Interested Students 4.2.97: Top | Help
...an assignment made by a teacher who hadn't actually read any of them recently. The only point to make is contrast: Hawthorne writes about using a mask to hide from an unpleasant reality (or to hide an unpleasant reality from the world), Browning about hypocrisy (consciously playing someone you aren't), and S merely uses the language of role-playing to talk about a real fact: that without hypocrisy we all go through stages that amount to different personalities at different times in our lives.Posted by Hamlet on April 21, 1997 at 12:02:53
In Reply to "Help: "All the world's a..." vs. Behind a Mask" posted by Matthew on April 20, 1997 at 18:07:43
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