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This tale of Scottish naiveté, going the rounds in London, came to Shakespeare's ears and he gave it scope in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Creatures of darkness lurk about the edges of his ...
This tale of Scottish naiveté, going the rounds in London, came to Shakespeare's ears and he gave it scope in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Creatures of darkness lurk about the edges of his ...
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The clown in Twelfth Night, describing our ambiguous selves, says that good “patches” bad in us and the other way round. This is a psychology and strikes off the nature of Shakespeare's biographies. When I xiv InTroducTIon To THE ...
The clown in Twelfth Night, describing our ambiguous selves, says that good “patches” bad in us and the other way round. This is a psychology and strikes off the nature of Shakespeare's biographies. When I xiv InTroducTIon To THE ...
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... as the ending approaches, wondering how things will turn out. The same is true of Twelfth Night, a comedy that verges on farce. But we know how the play will turn out, do InTroducTIon To THE TrAnSAcTIon EdITIon xvii.
... as the ending approaches, wondering how things will turn out. The same is true of Twelfth Night, a comedy that verges on farce. But we know how the play will turn out, do InTroducTIon To THE TrAnSAcTIon EdITIon xvii.
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Shakespeare's entertainments are like that earlier Brutus who pretended to be mad, “covering discretion with a coat of folly” (Henry V2.4). no play more implicative than A Midsummer Night's Dream, on its face only “matter for a May ...
Shakespeare's entertainments are like that earlier Brutus who pretended to be mad, “covering discretion with a coat of folly” (Henry V2.4). no play more implicative than A Midsummer Night's Dream, on its face only “matter for a May ...
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“The will of man is by his reason swayed,” says an inconstant lover in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2.2). But Lysander in the teeth of reason deserts his true love for “a worthier maid,” his fancy or erotic inclination bearing everything ...
“The will of man is by his reason swayed,” says an inconstant lover in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2.2). But Lysander in the teeth of reason deserts his true love for “a worthier maid,” his fancy or erotic inclination bearing everything ...
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Contents
| 1 | |
| 25 | |
Shadows of Himself | 79 |
WildGoose Chase | 107 |
A Motley to the View | 136 |
For Ted and Lloyd St Antoine | 155 |
The Dyers Hand | 163 |
Index | 195 |
Sailing to Illyria 65 | 65 |
Fools of Nature 101 | 101 |
PR2894 F65 2007 | 106 |
Treason in the Blood 134 | 134 |
The Wine of Life 160 | 160 |
Bravest at the Last 188 | 188 |
Unpathed Waters Undreamed Shores | 217 |
Journeys End | 247 |
Includes bibliographical references and index | 1 |
The Revolution of the Times 34 | 34 |
Index | 281 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Shakespeare |
| Author | Russell A. Fraser |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
| ISBN | 1412834031, 9781412834032 |
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