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His Shakespeare is a prosaic man of theater, not a poet in his wildest dreams. Gain goes with loss, though, and he spares us the divine afflatus of many nineteenth-century Shakespeares. Sir Sidney Lee (1898 and subsequently) spoke for ...
His Shakespeare is a prosaic man of theater, not a poet in his wildest dreams. Gain goes with loss, though, and he spares us the divine afflatus of many nineteenth-century Shakespeares. Sir Sidney Lee (1898 and subsequently) spoke for ...
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Already a successful playwright and narrative poet, he had eclipsed all his rivals. Predicted by the early years, his best work waited on the future. So Shakespeare's past is prologue, also an absorbing story in its own right, ...
Already a successful playwright and narrative poet, he had eclipsed all his rivals. Predicted by the early years, his best work waited on the future. So Shakespeare's past is prologue, also an absorbing story in its own right, ...
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Tradition, honoring England's patron saint and best poet together, says that Shakespeare was born on this day. Then there are the plays, approximately half of them published in Shakespeare's lifetime. Seven years after his death, ...
Tradition, honoring England's patron saint and best poet together, says that Shakespeare was born on this day. Then there are the plays, approximately half of them published in Shakespeare's lifetime. Seven years after his death, ...
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This is another version of the bucolic poet, warbling his native woodnotes wild. The undulating farmland, broken with coppices, hasn't changed much four hundred years later. Sheep and cattle crop the meadows.
This is another version of the bucolic poet, warbling his native woodnotes wild. The undulating farmland, broken with coppices, hasn't changed much four hundred years later. Sheep and cattle crop the meadows.
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Dryden, a great poet in the age after Shakespeare, thought this. He said that in the old days, antediluvian, there were giants in the earth. Then came the flood, social and political. "It was never merry days in England since gentlemen ...
Dryden, a great poet in the age after Shakespeare, thought this. He said that in the old days, antediluvian, there were giants in the earth. Then came the flood, social and political. "It was never merry days in England since gentlemen ...
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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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