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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Page vii
... beginning than the end of our understanding of Shakespeare's genius . Poetry forever makes itself over for each generation , and I cannot conceive a time that will not be able to ask with profit what Shakespeare has to say specifically ...
... beginning than the end of our understanding of Shakespeare's genius . Poetry forever makes itself over for each generation , and I cannot conceive a time that will not be able to ask with profit what Shakespeare has to say specifically ...
Page 8
... beginning to end , claiming that they ' let the music speak for itself . ' That argument is also not correct be- cause a talented artist , no matter how accurately he follows the markings in the score , renders the composition through ...
... beginning to end , claiming that they ' let the music speak for itself . ' That argument is also not correct be- cause a talented artist , no matter how accurately he follows the markings in the score , renders the composition through ...
Page 17
... beginnings lie intreasured . Such things become the hatch and brood of time . The embryo of the event — victory , defeat , love , madness , whatever it may be — inevitably exists before the event itself . What is the art of reading the ...
... beginnings lie intreasured . Such things become the hatch and brood of time . The embryo of the event — victory , defeat , love , madness , whatever it may be — inevitably exists before the event itself . What is the art of reading the ...
Page 18
... beginning , but unsavoury end , Ne'er settled equally , but high or low ; That all love's pleasure shall not match his woe . ' It shall be fickle , false , and full of fraud , Bud and be blasted in a breathing - while ; The bottom ...
... beginning , but unsavoury end , Ne'er settled equally , but high or low ; That all love's pleasure shall not match his woe . ' It shall be fickle , false , and full of fraud , Bud and be blasted in a breathing - while ; The bottom ...
Page 22
... beginning to the end of his life that what the world needs is a fresh expulsion of the Tar- quins . It still does . ( Those who in our day incline to exclusively economic theories of war might well take notice . ) IV The early plays of ...
... beginning to the end of his life that what the world needs is a fresh expulsion of the Tar- quins . It still does . ( Those who in our day incline to exclusively economic theories of war might well take notice . ) IV The early plays of ...
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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Antonio Bassanio battle beginning blood Brutus called Capulet casket Cassius character Comedy Comedy of Errors comes cries critics crown dead death devil disguise doth dramatic Duke eyes fact Falstaff father fear fool genius Gentlemen of Verona Ghost give Hamlet hath heart heaven Henry Henry IV Henry VI Henry's hero honor Hotspur imagination Julius Caesar Justice kill King Lear King's Laertes lines lord lover Merchant of Venice Mercutio mercy metaphor Midsummer-Night's Dream mind moral mother murder nature never night peace play poet poetry Polonius Portia Prince revenge Richard Richard II Romeo and Juliet Rosalind says scene seems sense Shake Shakespeare Shylock soul speak speech spirit story sweet symbol tell theater theatrical thee theme things thou thought throne Touchstone tragedy true truth turns Twelfth Night Tybalt unconscious utter words youth