Shakespeare: Invention of the Human: The Invention of the Human"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. |
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Page 173
... stage Jew . Yet Shakespeare wants it both ways , at once to push Marlowe aside , and also to so out - Marlowe Marlowe as to make our flesh creep . The stunning persuasiveness of Shy- lock's personality heightens our apprehension of ...
... stage Jew . Yet Shakespeare wants it both ways , at once to push Marlowe aside , and also to so out - Marlowe Marlowe as to make our flesh creep . The stunning persuasiveness of Shy- lock's personality heightens our apprehension of ...
Page 175
... stage a roman- tic comedy that rather blithely includes a forced Jewish conversion to Christianity , on penalty of death . When Shylock brokenly intones , " I am content , " few of our audiences are going to be content , unless you can ...
... stage a roman- tic comedy that rather blithely includes a forced Jewish conversion to Christianity , on penalty of death . When Shylock brokenly intones , " I am content , " few of our audiences are going to be content , unless you can ...
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... stage to die , not knowing whether Cordelia has been saved or not . No formalist or historicist would be patient with my asking this , but in what state of self - knowledge does Edmund find himself as he dies ? His sense of his own ...
... stage to die , not knowing whether Cordelia has been saved or not . No formalist or historicist would be patient with my asking this , but in what state of self - knowledge does Edmund find himself as he dies ? His sense of his own ...
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
Copyright | |
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