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Perhaps, a disturbing thought, we aren't meant to. Perhaps evil exists in a symbiotic relation to good, as when we hear of a snuff that lives within the flame of love and will quench it (Hamlet 4.7). Prospero doesn't blink the evil ...
Perhaps, a disturbing thought, we aren't meant to. Perhaps evil exists in a symbiotic relation to good, as when we hear of a snuff that lives within the flame of love and will quench it (Hamlet 4.7). Prospero doesn't blink the evil ...
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But they aren't meant for adornment, rather to make a point or buttress an argument, and when their source isn't obvious I locate it in the Notes. Shakespeare's first editors, addressing "the great variety of readers" in ...
But they aren't meant for adornment, rather to make a point or buttress an argument, and when their source isn't obvious I locate it in the Notes. Shakespeare's first editors, addressing "the great variety of readers" in ...
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The "divers of worship" who corrected him, knowing this, meant to set the facts straight. Shakespeare's first scholars, they deserve respectful attention. His story begins with mustering facts. But it ends, if worth its salt, ...
The "divers of worship" who corrected him, knowing this, meant to set the facts straight. Shakespeare's first scholars, they deserve respectful attention. His story begins with mustering facts. But it ends, if worth its salt, ...
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Except to those who died, much of the fighting meant little. At the end of Henry IV, Part One, Shakespeare's best history play, the soldiers troop off together, resolved to go at it another day. In Warwickshire and environs, ...
Except to those who died, much of the fighting meant little. At the end of Henry IV, Part One, Shakespeare's best history play, the soldiers troop off together, resolved to go at it another day. In Warwickshire and environs, ...
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This list, meant for exemplary, omits pork, kid, coney or rabbit, venison, fish, fowl, pigs' "pettietoes," and "white meats," dairy products including eggs. Where villagers ate three meals, gentry ate two, not breaking fast until noon.
This list, meant for exemplary, omits pork, kid, coney or rabbit, venison, fish, fowl, pigs' "pettietoes," and "white meats," dairy products including eggs. Where villagers ate three meals, gentry ate two, not breaking fast until noon.
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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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