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Page xvii
Literary biographers, looking for the art in the life and the life in the art, will want to keep them at the head of the page. caveat lector, though. Shakespeare's biographers have cast him as a barber-surgeon, a soldier, sailor, ...
Literary biographers, looking for the art in the life and the life in the art, will want to keep them at the head of the page. caveat lector, though. Shakespeare's biographers have cast him as a barber-surgeon, a soldier, sailor, ...
Page xviii
But his head is with Prince Hal, who has the superior credentials. The ending bears this out. Put in a nutshell, always risky when Shakespeare is before us, his endings are causal. Parti pris doesn't govern, as when the playwright puts ...
But his head is with Prince Hal, who has the superior credentials. The ending bears this out. Put in a nutshell, always risky when Shakespeare is before us, his endings are causal. Parti pris doesn't govern, as when the playwright puts ...
Page 8
Others, blurting out the truth, died for opinion's sake or knocked their heads against the universe, like his contemporary Marlowe. ... Henry VIII, a corrupt adolescent hiding in a man's gross body, made himself head of the Church.
Others, blurting out the truth, died for opinion's sake or knocked their heads against the universe, like his contemporary Marlowe. ... Henry VIII, a corrupt adolescent hiding in a man's gross body, made himself head of the Church.
Page 10
In the reign of Elizabeth, if you wanted to save your neck you kept your head down. She said she desired "to open a window on no man's conscience." But this Tudor prince was a child of her age, reveling like others in blood- sports.
In the reign of Elizabeth, if you wanted to save your neck you kept your head down. She said she desired "to open a window on no man's conscience." But this Tudor prince was a child of her age, reveling like others in blood- sports.
Page 12
In this anarchic world, the winds, untied, fight against the churches, waves confound navigation, and castles topple on their warders' heads. "Let order die!" cries the anarch, personated by Northumberland in Henry IV, Part Two.
In this anarchic world, the winds, untied, fight against the churches, waves confound navigation, and castles topple on their warders' heads. "Let order die!" cries the anarch, personated by Northumberland in Henry IV, Part Two.
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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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