The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1, Volume 1In 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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... look into it for what it has to say about this or that play as distinguished from those who read all of it . This imme- diately introduces a double difficulty in a work founded on the belief that Shakespeare's plays are parts of a ...
... look into it for what it has to say about this or that play as distinguished from those who read all of it . This imme- diately introduces a double difficulty in a work founded on the belief that Shakespeare's plays are parts of a ...
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... Look into a pool of water . There are the sky and the trees . But there , too , is your face at the center — however spiritualized . Call to the rocks and hills . Is it your voice the air brings back ? Of course . Yet how strangely ...
... Look into a pool of water . There are the sky and the trees . But there , too , is your face at the center — however spiritualized . Call to the rocks and hills . Is it your voice the air brings back ? Of course . Yet how strangely ...
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... looks into it sees not the mirror but himself . We all live in the same world , but what different worlds we see in it and make out of it : Caesar's , Jesus ' , Machiavelli's , Mozart's — yours and mine . The oracle remains the type of ...
... looks into it sees not the mirror but himself . We all live in the same world , but what different worlds we see in it and make out of it : Caesar's , Jesus ' , Machiavelli's , Mozart's — yours and mine . The oracle remains the type of ...
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... looks forward to the Tragedies in just the way in which in this passage Macbeth looks back to The Rape of Lucrece . III The importance of these two in many ways juvenile 20 } THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE.
... looks forward to the Tragedies in just the way in which in this passage Macbeth looks back to The Rape of Lucrece . III The importance of these two in many ways juvenile 20 } THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE.
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... women in the Elizabethan theater are confusing cause with occasion and would do well to look a little deeper . Shakespeare's resourceful heroines are fit companions of his poetical heroes { 21 } THE INTEGRITY OF SHAKESPEARE.
... women in the Elizabethan theater are confusing cause with occasion and would do well to look a little deeper . Shakespeare's resourceful heroines are fit companions of his poetical heroes { 21 } 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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