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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... question , " Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts ? " and of what age if not the atomic did Albany make his prediction : It will come , Humanity must perforce prey on itself , Like monsters of the deep . Ours is a ...
... question , " Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts ? " and of what age if not the atomic did Albany make his prediction : It will come , Humanity must perforce prey on itself , Like monsters of the deep . Ours is a ...
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... question might have been . It is in Cym- beline — the scene in which the old man , Belarius , recounts how the king's two sons whom he carried off in their childhood and brought up in the wilds of Wales respond to the tales he is in the ...
... question might have been . It is in Cym- beline — the scene in which the old man , Belarius , recounts how the king's two sons whom he carried off in their childhood and brought up in the wilds of Wales respond to the tales he is in the ...
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... question in a classic passage in Troilus and Cressida that is possibly unsurpassed in all his works in its importance for an understanding of the poet's own method of ob- servation and creation . It is where Achilles is astounded to ...
... question in a classic passage in Troilus and Cressida that is possibly unsurpassed in all his works in its importance for an understanding of the poet's own method of ob- servation and creation . It is where Achilles is astounded to ...
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... question , Who plucks the bud before one leaf put forth ? Shakespeare saw that the prolongation of innocence — of " infancy " as the biologists say -- is the key to mature strength . If springing things be any jot diminish'd , They ...
... question , Who plucks the bud before one leaf put forth ? Shakespeare saw that the prolongation of innocence — of " infancy " as the biologists say -- is the key to mature strength . If springing things be any jot diminish'd , They ...
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... question of their authorship is the fact that at or near the beginning of his dramatic career Shakespeare had his intimate attention drawn to the troubled fif- teenth century . That he did may have been a matter of pure theatrical ...
... question of their authorship is the fact that at or near the beginning of his dramatic career Shakespeare had his intimate attention drawn to the troubled fif- teenth century . That he did may have been a matter of pure theatrical ...
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