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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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When Macbeth turns to evil, he becomes “ripe for shaking” (4.3), or like the dying Mortimer in Shakespeare's first play, “a withered vine/ That droops his sapless branches to the ground” (1 Henry VI 2.5). As a young man I thought images ...
When Macbeth turns to evil, he becomes “ripe for shaking” (4.3), or like the dying Mortimer in Shakespeare's first play, “a withered vine/ That droops his sapless branches to the ground” (1 Henry VI 2.5). As a young man I thought images ...
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... the soldiers troop off together, resolved to go at it another day. In Warwickshire and environs, this day was always dawning. Southwest of Snitterfield lay the bloody ground of Evesham (12.65) where Simon de THE COUNTRY 3.
... the soldiers troop off together, resolved to go at it another day. In Warwickshire and environs, this day was always dawning. Southwest of Snitterfield lay the bloody ground of Evesham (12.65) where Simon de THE COUNTRY 3.
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lay the bloody ground of Evesham (12.65) where Simon de Montfort, greatest of the barons, died fighting King Henry III. At Bosworth Field, north and east, Henry VII, another maker and shaker, ended the Wars of the Roses in 1485.
lay the bloody ground of Evesham (12.65) where Simon de Montfort, greatest of the barons, died fighting King Henry III. At Bosworth Field, north and east, Henry VII, another maker and shaker, ended the Wars of the Roses in 1485.
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Timon in his rantings remembers "plough-torn leas," and Gonzalo, swamped by the tempest, would trade a thousand furlongs of water for an acre of barren ground. Fleeing the fight at Actium, Antony is "the mered question," marked off from ...
Timon in his rantings remembers "plough-torn leas," and Gonzalo, swamped by the tempest, would trade a thousand furlongs of water for an acre of barren ground. Fleeing the fight at Actium, Antony is "the mered question," marked off from ...
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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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