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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Page viii
... poet " in detail " in Morgann's sense , how true his " a task hitherto unat- tempted " still remains . Any book that ... poet — for it is the poet who actually achieves that union of the many and the one about which philosophers have ...
... poet " in detail " in Morgann's sense , how true his " a task hitherto unat- tempted " still remains . Any book that ... poet — for it is the poet who actually achieves that union of the many and the one about which philosophers have ...
Page ix
... poet conceals himself as utterly from the crowd and from seekers after pleasure and power as he reveals himself to those rarer individuals who can enter his spirit . The purpose of the poet in this sense is often in direct contradiction ...
... poet conceals himself as utterly from the crowd and from seekers after pleasure and power as he reveals himself to those rarer individuals who can enter his spirit . The purpose of the poet in this sense is often in direct contradiction ...
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... POET - PLAYWRIGHT X. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW XI . A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM . XII . THE MERCHANT OF VENICE . XIII . ROMEO AND JULIET 33 35 41 XIV . KING JOHN XV . RICHARD II 68 74 81 117 140 148 48 55 ∞ in 08 XVI . HENRY IV , Part 1 ...
... POET - PLAYWRIGHT X. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW XI . A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM . XII . THE MERCHANT OF VENICE . XIII . ROMEO AND JULIET 33 35 41 XIV . KING JOHN XV . RICHARD II 68 74 81 117 140 148 48 55 ∞ in 08 XVI . HENRY IV , Part 1 ...
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... poet's to our own , has found itself . One by one all the philosophies have been discovered in Shakespeare's works , and he has been charged — both as virtue and weak- ness — with having no philosophy . The lawyer believes he must have ...
... poet's to our own , has found itself . One by one all the philosophies have been discovered in Shakespeare's works , and he has been charged — both as virtue and weak- ness — with having no philosophy . The lawyer believes he must have ...
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... poet — to name no others . In the face of all this variety it would be interesting to get hold of Shakespeare and ask him how he would prefer to have his plays taken . As it happens , there is a passage in one of them that may give us a ...
... poet — to name no others . In the face of all this variety it would be interesting to get hold of Shakespeare and ask him how he would prefer to have his plays taken . As it happens , there is a passage in one of them that may give us a ...
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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