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coming than henry James, left no notebooks intimating connections. a few supers in the plays were known to him in person ... play, not only the lion but thorny hedgehogs, newts and blindworms, spotted snakes, spiders, the clamorous owl.
coming than henry James, left no notebooks intimating connections. a few supers in the plays were known to him in person ... play, not only the lion but thorny hedgehogs, newts and blindworms, spotted snakes, spiders, the clamorous owl.
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But we know how the play will turn out, do we not, and not because we have read or seen it before. The end it moves toward inexorably is dictated by interior logic. There is othello crying out in the toils, “But oh vain boast!
But we know how the play will turn out, do we not, and not because we have read or seen it before. The end it moves toward inexorably is dictated by interior logic. There is othello crying out in the toils, “But oh vain boast!
Page xx
In all the kinds of plays he wrote, in tragedy, no doubt, but in the histories and comedies too, his agon is primarily moral. ... Whether the hero wins or loses or even lives or dies isn't the play's matter of moment.
In all the kinds of plays he wrote, in tragedy, no doubt, but in the histories and comedies too, his agon is primarily moral. ... Whether the hero wins or loses or even lives or dies isn't the play's matter of moment.
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Then there are the plays, approximately half of them published in Shakespeare's lifetime. Seven years after his death, most were collected in an impressive folio by two friends and fellow actors. Taken together, they offer a likeness of ...
Then there are the plays, approximately half of them published in Shakespeare's lifetime. Seven years after his death, most were collected in an impressive folio by two friends and fellow actors. Taken together, they offer a likeness of ...
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Her lips aren't for kissing, says a woman in the play, "no common, though several they be." Elsewhere Shakespeare looks at the landlord, a voracious feeder. The young dace, small fry, was bait for this old pike. Betting on the future, ...
Her lips aren't for kissing, says a woman in the play, "no common, though several they be." Elsewhere Shakespeare looks at the landlord, a voracious feeder. The young dace, small fry, was bait for this old pike. Betting on the future, ...
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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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