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Getting at essential Shakespeare is something else. on this ground the biographer has the chance to engage us, even after the lapse of centuries. The modern biographer who hopes to do that will be more likely to succeed as he stands on ...
Getting at essential Shakespeare is something else. on this ground the biographer has the chance to engage us, even after the lapse of centuries. The modern biographer who hopes to do that will be more likely to succeed as he stands on ...
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ogy and strikes off the nature of Shakespeare's biographies. When I was a young man, the last word belonged to A. L. rowse. His no-nonsense Shakespeare (1963) would have wondered why Hamlet didn't get on with it.
ogy and strikes off the nature of Shakespeare's biographies. When I was a young man, the last word belonged to A. L. rowse. His no-nonsense Shakespeare (1963) would have wondered why Hamlet didn't get on with it.
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One account, by an eminent American Shakespearean, begins: "Every writer who wishes to write about the man William Shakespeare longs, but longs in vain, to see him 'in his habit as he lived.' " Caveats are useful, and Shakespeare being ...
One account, by an eminent American Shakespearean, begins: "Every writer who wishes to write about the man William Shakespeare longs, but longs in vain, to see him 'in his habit as he lived.' " Caveats are useful, and Shakespeare being ...
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That is what the Prayer Book told them, and presumably John and Mary, Shakespeare's parents, hearkened to this. The day before the christening honored St. Mark, but spooks walked on this Holy Day. "Black Crosses," they called it, ...
That is what the Prayer Book told them, and presumably John and Mary, Shakespeare's parents, hearkened to this. The day before the christening honored St. Mark, but spooks walked on this Holy Day. "Black Crosses," they called it, ...
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Very Shakespearean, Houghton is punning even at death's door. Shakespeare's characters do this, one dying bravely "like a smug bridegroom," another hugging darkness in his arms like a bride. Good lines, Shakespeare thought, ...
Very Shakespearean, Houghton is punning even at death's door. Shakespeare's characters do this, one dying bravely "like a smug bridegroom," another hugging darkness in his arms like a bride. Good lines, Shakespeare thought, ...
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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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