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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... and cressida Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts ? —king lear How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? —sonnet 65 How many a book on Shakespeare has been prefaced with.
... and cressida Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts ? —king lear How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea Whose action is no stronger than a flower ? —sonnet 65 How many a book on Shakespeare has been prefaced with.
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... King Lear direct the question , " Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts ? " and of what age if not the atomic did Albany make his prediction : It will come , Humanity must perforce prey on itself , Like monsters of ...
... King Lear direct the question , " Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts ? " and of what age if not the atomic did Albany make his prediction : It will come , Humanity must perforce prey on itself , Like monsters of ...
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... King Lear . Not to imply that Shakespeare planned or was fully con- scious of this deeper unity . The imagination does not work that way . How it does work , Sir Thomas Browne once made clear when he exclaimed : " Now for my life , it ...
... King Lear . Not to imply that Shakespeare planned or was fully con- scious of this deeper unity . The imagination does not work that way . How it does work , Sir Thomas Browne once made clear when he exclaimed : " Now for my life , it ...
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... King Lear and The Tempest ? Be sure that Hamlet's creator was as capable as anybody of find- ing undetected and surprising things in the Prince of Denmark and could be as amazed afterward at what he had written as Swift was in his old ...
... King Lear and The Tempest ? Be sure that Hamlet's creator was as capable as anybody of find- ing undetected and surprising things in the Prince of Denmark and could be as amazed afterward at what he had written as Swift was in his old ...
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... King Lear is a miracle , " wrote a young woman who had just come under its incomparable spell . " There is nothing in the whole world that is not in this play . It says everything , and if this is the last and final judgment on this ...
... King Lear is a miracle , " wrote a young woman who had just come under its incomparable spell . " There is nothing in the whole world that is not in this play . It says everything , and if this is the last and final judgment on this ...
Contents
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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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