I think we might need to make a meta post about this
I'm guilty of it too, but as I become more experienced here, I realize that many of these questions are salvageable, or just doesn't need to be closed. I think people might do it to up their "review task" number
It's a perfectly legitimate question. It has a fairly defined premise. Although some of Shakespeare's plays seem to blur the lines between different types of play, asking for basically elements of certain types of plays is, fairly defined.
It's like asking "In what ways is Hamlet a tragic play?" Or even better, "What elements of a tragedy is found in Hamlet?"
Oooh, I should ask what the difference between a Shakespearean Comedy and a Shakespearean Romance play
@PrinceNorthLæraðr retracted close vote. I wasn't sure how they were defining "typical romance play", but I think I forgot that has a generally-accepted definition.
Yeah. It can be better rephrased as "elements of...", but semantics
It would be off-topic if it asked "What kind of genre is Pericles"
But tragedy, romance, comedy, history- all have decently well-defined elements that are found in those genres. Like I said, some of the plays blur these lines, but asking for specific elements of generally well-defined play types- I can't see why that would be too broad
Trying to understand the following sentence from H.P. Lovecraft's Tree:
Many months passed, yet in the sour face of Musides came nothing of
the sharp expectancy which the situation should arouse.
There are so many meanings in the dictionary so that I cannot infer the right one here. THanks a lot!
we’re all killers.
we’ve all killed parts of ourselves
to survive.
we’ve all got blood on our hands.
something somewhere had to die
so we could stay alive.
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I came across this following series of phrases while reading H.G. Wells's Kipps and I promptly have no idea what they mean:
There were times when Kipps would lie awake, all others in the dormitory asleep and snoring, and think dismally of the outlook Minton pictured. Dimly he perceived the thing...
Can someone explain what this means and a little context?
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/dante_alighieri_390319
@PrinceNorthLæraðr I would need to check whether "romance" was used at all to refer to plays in Shakespeare's plays. It wad Dowden who came up with the idea of referring to those four late plays as "romances", i.e. in the late 19th century.