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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... hand anyone who reads more extensively will forgive , I trust , certain brief repetitions inserted expressly for those who may read a later without having read an earlier chapter . There will be some to wonder why Dostoevsky is referred ...
... hand anyone who reads more extensively will forgive , I trust , certain brief repetitions inserted expressly for those who may read a later without having read an earlier chapter . There will be some to wonder why Dostoevsky is referred ...
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... hand is it something that exists just in the human heart or mind . It is rather the spark that leaps across when something within is brought close to some- thing without , or something without to something within . The poetry is the ...
... hand is it something that exists just in the human heart or mind . It is rather the spark that leaps across when something within is brought close to some- thing without , or something without to something within . The poetry is the ...
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... hand , his nature just escaped being subdued to what it worked into the theater , that is , to acting and to playmaking . Some of those I have called theatrical critics ( with no reference to theatrical re- viewers ) , as if sorry that ...
... hand , his nature just escaped being subdued to what it worked into the theater , that is , to acting and to playmaking . Some of those I have called theatrical critics ( with no reference to theatrical re- viewers ) , as if sorry that ...
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... hand the perpetual possibility of such a miracle . Art is given us to redeem us . All we are in the habit of asking or expecting of it today is that it should please or teach — whereas it ought to captivate us , carry us out of ...
... hand the perpetual possibility of such a miracle . Art is given us to redeem us . All we are in the habit of asking or expecting of it today is that it should please or teach — whereas it ought to captivate us , carry us out of ...
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... hands that have nothing to handle , feet that have no- where to go , and so on . Everything , while contributing to the life of the embryo , seems subordinated to a life of a quite different and higher order yet to come . The embryo has ...
... hands that have nothing to handle , feet that have no- where to go , and so on . Everything , while contributing to the life of the embryo , seems subordinated to a life of a quite different and higher order yet to come . The embryo has ...
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