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Page xv
For roughly a hundred and fifty years, down to the beginning of modern times, successive Shakespeare scholars reclaimed the Zuyder Zee of ignorance about him. Then the work of consolidating succeeded the work of reclamation.
For roughly a hundred and fifty years, down to the beginning of modern times, successive Shakespeare scholars reclaimed the Zuyder Zee of ignorance about him. Then the work of consolidating succeeded the work of reclamation.
Page xxiv
Possibly Shakespeare, adjusting the conventional opposition of reason and will, opens the door to confusion. G.B. Harrison, whose edition I used as a beginning instructor, decided that grace must be identical with goodness.
Possibly Shakespeare, adjusting the conventional opposition of reason and will, opens the door to confusion. G.B. Harrison, whose edition I used as a beginning instructor, decided that grace must be identical with goodness.
Page xxviii
Images from the natural world and its cycle of waxing and waning are everywhere in the plays from the beginning. “I have begun to plant thee,” says duncan to Macbeth, “and will labor to make thee full of growing” (1.4).
Images from the natural world and its cycle of waxing and waning are everywhere in the plays from the beginning. “I have begun to plant thee,” says duncan to Macbeth, “and will labor to make thee full of growing” (1.4).
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Helena's pilgrimage brings her back to the beginning, and in the Forest of Arden Rosalind doesn't find a better world. ... Wanting to escape his beginnings, Shakespeare climbed the ladder, never escaping altogether.
Helena's pilgrimage brings her back to the beginning, and in the Forest of Arden Rosalind doesn't find a better world. ... Wanting to escape his beginnings, Shakespeare climbed the ladder, never escaping altogether.
Page 12
Shakespeare's bad dream, the annulling of order gets his attention, beginning with his earliest histories. For example, this, from Henry VI, Part Two: Oh, let the vile world end And let the premised flames of the last ...
Shakespeare's bad dream, the annulling of order gets his attention, beginning with his earliest histories. For example, this, from Henry VI, Part Two: Oh, let the vile world end And let the premised flames of the last ...
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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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