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Page xviii
This is moving beyond the play's requirements, and it may be that Shakespeare's heart is with Hotspur. But his head is with Prince Hal, who has the superior credentials. The ending bears this out. Put in a nutshell, always risky when ...
This is moving beyond the play's requirements, and it may be that Shakespeare's heart is with Hotspur. But his head is with Prince Hal, who has the superior credentials. The ending bears this out. Put in a nutshell, always risky when ...
Page xx
Banquo's “franchised” is free, as when we get the vote or are enfranchised, and his “bosom,” more amply, is the heart or center of his being. Though he doesn't speak of his “soul” or the “sin” that threatens to pollute it ...
Banquo's “franchised” is free, as when we get the vote or are enfranchised, and his “bosom,” more amply, is the heart or center of his being. Though he doesn't speak of his “soul” or the “sin” that threatens to pollute it ...
Page xxiv
I liked to say, with one of his beleaguered characters, “I know not What counts harsh Fortune casts upon my face,/ But in my bosom shall she never come/ To make my heart her vassal” (Antony and Cleopatra 2.6).
I liked to say, with one of his beleaguered characters, “I know not What counts harsh Fortune casts upon my face,/ But in my bosom shall she never come/ To make my heart her vassal” (Antony and Cleopatra 2.6).
Page xxvi
This endlessly repeated cycle is like the rhythmic contracting and dilating of the heart, and doesn't tell of progress but only of recurrence. Perhaps we oscillate to no particular purpose about the twin poles of growth and decay until ...
This endlessly repeated cycle is like the rhythmic contracting and dilating of the heart, and doesn't tell of progress but only of recurrence. Perhaps we oscillate to no particular purpose about the twin poles of growth and decay until ...
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Beneath the player's hide, Greene saw the "tiger's heart." Later, mutual acquaintance tried to palliate this, saying how Shakespeare, no tiger, was civil, upright in his dealings, polished in his art. "Good sentences and well pronounced ...
Beneath the player's hide, Greene saw the "tiger's heart." Later, mutual acquaintance tried to palliate this, saying how Shakespeare, no tiger, was civil, upright in his dealings, polished in his art. "Good sentences and well pronounced ...
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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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