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A leather worker and dealer in fleece, he cut an important figure in Stratford, making a good marriage to Mary Arden, a farmer's daughter, well left. Rising through the ranks in the village corporation, he was chosen Stratford's bailiff ...
A leather worker and dealer in fleece, he cut an important figure in Stratford, making a good marriage to Mary Arden, a farmer's daughter, well left. Rising through the ranks in the village corporation, he was chosen Stratford's bailiff ...
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A boy in Stratford church, he read the First Epistle of Peter: "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away." Stratford's life was the land, ...
A boy in Stratford church, he read the First Epistle of Peter: "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away." Stratford's life was the land, ...
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His drunken tinker in The Taming of the Shrew, "old Sly's son of Burton Heath," comes from Barton, eight miles from Stratford, or Barton-on-the-Heath, sixteen miles away. Aunt Joan, his mother Mary's sister, lived in Barton-on-the-Heath ...
His drunken tinker in The Taming of the Shrew, "old Sly's son of Burton Heath," comes from Barton, eight miles from Stratford, or Barton-on-the-Heath, sixteen miles away. Aunt Joan, his mother Mary's sister, lived in Barton-on-the-Heath ...
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Near the end of his life and settled once more in Stratford, he made his peace with the local enclosers, a story that does him no credit. His last plays, breaking out in angry social asides, say that this compromise cost the man who ...
Near the end of his life and settled once more in Stratford, he made his peace with the local enclosers, a story that does him no credit. His last plays, breaking out in angry social asides, say that this compromise cost the man who ...
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Preferring trade to farming, he quit Snitterfield for Stratford. Had he not done this, his son, unlettered, would have died unknown, some village Hampden or mute inglorious Milton, keeping the noiseless tenor of his way.
Preferring trade to farming, he quit Snitterfield for Stratford. Had he not done this, his son, unlettered, would have died unknown, some village Hampden or mute inglorious Milton, keeping the noiseless tenor of his way.
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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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| Title | Shakespeare |
| Author | Russell A. Fraser |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
| ISBN | 1412834031, 9781412834032 |
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