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That tragedy is averted is a piece of good luck, but that isn't why we are happy. The play makes us happy because it finds serious matter in a forgettable occasion and turns it to permanent use. on other events of the period, ...
That tragedy is averted is a piece of good luck, but that isn't why we are happy. The play makes us happy because it finds serious matter in a forgettable occasion and turns it to permanent use. on other events of the period, ...
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But Sir Sidney's Shakespeare, a staid Englishman of the mercantile class, isn't to be believed. Joyce in Ulysses was his scholar, however, indebted for hints toward his imaginative portrait of Shakespeare. Joyce is the better biographer ...
But Sir Sidney's Shakespeare, a staid Englishman of the mercantile class, isn't to be believed. Joyce in Ulysses was his scholar, however, indebted for hints toward his imaginative portrait of Shakespeare. Joyce is the better biographer ...
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His fate isn't contrived nor inspired by heavenly malice. He falls in the toils as he is human. Also, however, he lets his passion “colly” or blacken his judgment, and on this side he is a culpable othello. I am positing a conclusion ...
His fate isn't contrived nor inspired by heavenly malice. He falls in the toils as he is human. Also, however, he lets his passion “colly” or blacken his judgment, and on this side he is a culpable othello. I am positing a conclusion ...
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Whether the hero wins or loses or even lives or dies isn't the play's matter of moment. Banquo in Macbeth suggests what this is when he resolves to keep his “bosom franchised.” Shakespeare's language, as often, needs a comment.
Whether the hero wins or loses or even lives or dies isn't the play's matter of moment. Banquo in Macbeth suggests what this is when he resolves to keep his “bosom franchised.” Shakespeare's language, as often, needs a comment.
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Shakespeare isn't one of them. I waS a youngster when I began teaching Shakespeare's plays, and my strongly asserted moral sense of him went with my youth and appealed to my students. They liked it that I put firm footing beneath them.
Shakespeare isn't one of them. I waS a youngster when I began teaching Shakespeare's plays, and my strongly asserted moral sense of him went with my youth and appealed to my students. They liked it that I put firm footing beneath them.
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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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