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Page ix
This obligates readers to know something of the plays. They seem to stand on their own, and saying where they and poems come from or what they reflect needs self-discipline and a large dose of tact. Shakespeare, less forthcoming than ...
This obligates readers to know something of the plays. They seem to stand on their own, and saying where they and poems come from or what they reflect needs self-discipline and a large dose of tact. Shakespeare, less forthcoming than ...
Page xi
Befitting my subject, I have done my best to get it right, and hope at a minimum that readers will call tenable what I put for true. Much of the material concerning Shakespeare's life is now in the public domain.
Befitting my subject, I have done my best to get it right, and hope at a minimum that readers will call tenable what I put for true. Much of the material concerning Shakespeare's life is now in the public domain.
Page xiii
This will surprise readers who as- sume that old and obsolete are the same. For biographies of Shakespeare, old is often livelier and fraught with possibility for getting us next to their subject. We are introduced to a more fully ...
This will surprise readers who as- sume that old and obsolete are the same. For biographies of Shakespeare, old is often livelier and fraught with possibility for getting us next to their subject. We are introduced to a more fully ...
Page xvi
But readers hopeful of personality won't find it in chambers' two-volume Study of Facts and Problems (1930). ... If this sounds diminishing, however, let the reader be advised: all roads to the knowledge of Shakespeare lead through ...
But readers hopeful of personality won't find it in chambers' two-volume Study of Facts and Problems (1930). ... If this sounds diminishing, however, let the reader be advised: all roads to the knowledge of Shakespeare lead through ...
Page xvii
This is my conceit, the old-fashioned word meaning a flight of fancy, but I ask the reader to indulge it and to believe that I am jesting in earnest. Essential Shakespeare is the playwright of the agon, the Greek word for an athletic ...
This is my conceit, the old-fashioned word meaning a flight of fancy, but I ask the reader to indulge it and to believe that I am jesting in earnest. Essential Shakespeare is the playwright of the agon, the Greek word for an athletic ...
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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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