The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1, Volume 1University of Chicago Press, Feb 15, 2009 - 408 pages In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius. |
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... HENRY VI 28 V. TITUS ANDRONICUS VI . RICHARD III VII . THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA VIII . LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST . IX . THE POET - PLAYWRIGHT X. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW XI . A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM . XII . THE MERCHANT OF VENICE ...
... HENRY VI 28 V. TITUS ANDRONICUS VI . RICHARD III VII . THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA VIII . LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST . IX . THE POET - PLAYWRIGHT X. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW XI . A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM . XII . THE MERCHANT OF VENICE ...
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... Henry VI — and I am emphati- cally not forgetting Henry V , ravisher of France — he never gives us a full picture of a good king . The Richards and Henrys , the Edwards and Claudi- uses , the Caesars and Macbeths , are , all of them ...
... Henry VI — and I am emphati- cally not forgetting Henry V , ravisher of France — he never gives us a full picture of a good king . The Richards and Henrys , the Edwards and Claudi- uses , the Caesars and Macbeths , are , all of them ...
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... unreal conventions of the stage . In that sense not only A Midsummer - Night's Dream , but Macbeth and The Tempest are already implicit in The Comedy of Errors . Chapter IV The trilogy on the reign of Henry VI { 27 } THE COMEDY OF ERRORS.
... unreal conventions of the stage . In that sense not only A Midsummer - Night's Dream , but Macbeth and The Tempest are already implicit in The Comedy of Errors . Chapter IV The trilogy on the reign of Henry VI { 27 } THE COMEDY OF ERRORS.
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Harold C. Goddard. Chapter IV The trilogy on the reign of Henry VI , or at least the first of the three plays , competes with The Comedy of Errors for the distinction of ... VI The Two Gentlemen of Verona. 28 IV. The Three Parts of Henry VI.
Harold C. Goddard. Chapter IV The trilogy on the reign of Henry VI , or at least the first of the three plays , competes with The Comedy of Errors for the distinction of ... VI The Two Gentlemen of Verona. 28 IV. The Three Parts of Henry VI.
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... and souls of individuals , that the political problem is , once and for all , a function of the psychological problem . It is an old truth that he who ruleth himself is better than he who { 29 } THE THREE PARTS OF HENRY VI.
... and souls of individuals , that the political problem is , once and for all , a function of the psychological problem . It is an old truth that he who ruleth himself is better than he who { 29 } THE THREE PARTS OF HENRY VI.
Contents
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15 | |
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V Titus Andronicus | 33 |
VI Richard III | 35 |
VII The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 41 |
VIII Loves Labours Lost | 48 |
XIV King John | 140 |
XV Richard II | 148 |
XVI Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part II The Merry Wives of Windsor | 161 |
XVII Henry V | 215 |
XVIII Henry VIII | 269 |
XIX Much Ado about Nothing | 271 |
XX As You Like It | 281 |
XXI Twelfth Night | 294 |
IX The PoetPlaywright | 55 |
X The Taming of the Shrew | 68 |
XI A MidsummerNights Dream | 74 |
XII The Merchant of Venice | 81 |
XIII Romeo and Juliet | 117 |
XXII Julius Caesar | 307 |
XXIII Hamlet | 331 |
Index | 387 |
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