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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... come from they tend to forget where they are going . They tend to forget that poetry means creation , and creation is something that still goes on . And then there are the theatrical critics — not the theatrical reviewers but the ...
... come from they tend to forget where they are going . They tend to forget that poetry means creation , and creation is something that still goes on . And then there are the theatrical critics — not the theatrical reviewers but the ...
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... come to life like linking it with the experience of the moment . We all remember some familiar tale , some proverb or maxim long accepted as true , that one day suddenly lighted up what was hap- pening with such vividness that we ...
... come to life like linking it with the experience of the moment . We all remember some familiar tale , some proverb or maxim long accepted as true , that one day suddenly lighted up what was hap- pening with such vividness that we ...
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... comes it , if Shakespeare was play- wright , or even dramatist , before he was poet , that so many of his refer- ences to the stage are slighting or contemptuous ; that it is precisely when he makes concessions to theatrical effect , as ...
... comes it , if Shakespeare was play- wright , or even dramatist , before he was poet , that so many of his refer- ences to the stage are slighting or contemptuous ; that it is precisely when he makes concessions to theatrical effect , as ...
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... comes of it it will be an oak . But it does take wisdom and vision to perceive that it is possible to make ... come to life , which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured . Such things become the hatch and brood of time . The ...
... comes of it it will be an oak . But it does take wisdom and vision to perceive that it is possible to make ... come to life , which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured . Such things become the hatch and brood of time . The ...
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... st pattern of excelling nature . " And , to return to Venus and Adonis , in Venus ' And beauty dead , black chaos comes again , we have the innermost theme of Othello down to Othello's { 19 } THE INTEGRITY OF SHAKESPEARE.
... st pattern of excelling nature . " And , to return to Venus and Adonis , in Venus ' And beauty dead , black chaos comes again , we have the innermost theme of Othello down to Othello's { 19 } THE INTEGRITY OF SHAKESPEARE.
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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