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Page xiv
Some, like Foucault and his epigones, deny that Shakespeare existed at all. urging the record against them, I am not arguing a case, leaving that to the Sunday supplement, and I am willing to say with James Joyce that Shakespeare was ...
Some, like Foucault and his epigones, deny that Shakespeare existed at all. urging the record against them, I am not arguing a case, leaving that to the Sunday supplement, and I am willing to say with James Joyce that Shakespeare was ...
Page xix
“These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,” says Antony, “or lose myself in dotage” (1.2). not breaking his fetters, he dies. our sense that it might have been otherwise precludes descriptions of the plays as fated. nothing in ...
“These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,” says Antony, “or lose myself in dotage” (1.2). not breaking his fetters, he dies. our sense that it might have been otherwise precludes descriptions of the plays as fated. nothing in ...
Page xxi
“The will of man is by his reason swayed,” says an inconstant lover in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2.2). But Lysander in the teeth of reason deserts his true love for “a worthier maid,” his fancy or erotic inclination bearing everything ...
“The will of man is by his reason swayed,” says an inconstant lover in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2.2). But Lysander in the teeth of reason deserts his true love for “a worthier maid,” his fancy or erotic inclination bearing everything ...
Page xxiii
St. Thomas, giving a cue to many, says the will never moves except under the shadow of good. This doesn't work for Shakespeare. Believing in prodigies beyond the ken of behavioral science, he makes room in his repertory for characters ...
St. Thomas, giving a cue to many, says the will never moves except under the shadow of good. This doesn't work for Shakespeare. Believing in prodigies beyond the ken of behavioral science, he makes room in his repertory for characters ...
Page xxiv
Then, a stunning volte face, he says: “I am settled.” no sequitur connects the decision to break off with that other, to go forward. A hiatus, mysterious in nature, opens between the two, filled up or hurried over by the suavity of ...
Then, a stunning volte face, he says: “I am settled.” no sequitur connects the decision to break off with that other, to go forward. A hiatus, mysterious in nature, opens between the two, filled up or hurried over by the suavity of ...
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Contents
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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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