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Page xiv
Piety toward the past is becoming but provident too, letting the new arrival on the scene see further. His proper subject is Shakespeare the man, gathered from the plays and poems as well as the life record. despite what you often hear, ...
Piety toward the past is becoming but provident too, letting the new arrival on the scene see further. His proper subject is Shakespeare the man, gathered from the plays and poems as well as the life record. despite what you often hear, ...
Page xviii
But in the play's climactic scene, Hotspur, “a very valiant rebel,” rises into an atmosphere purer than ours, purer even than Hal's. “oh gentlemen, the time of life is short,” he says. “To spend that shortness basely were too long,/ If ...
But in the play's climactic scene, Hotspur, “a very valiant rebel,” rises into an atmosphere purer than ours, purer even than Hal's. “oh gentlemen, the time of life is short,” he says. “To spend that shortness basely were too long,/ If ...
Page xix
He has his surprising connection to caliban, vivified in complementary scenes. “Enter caliban with a burden of wood” is the stage ... As the next scene begins Ferdinand enters, “bearing a log.” Prospero, a beneficent taskmaster, ...
He has his surprising connection to caliban, vivified in complementary scenes. “Enter caliban with a burden of wood” is the stage ... As the next scene begins Ferdinand enters, “bearing a log.” Prospero, a beneficent taskmaster, ...
Page 9
This angry man of Kent, killed in 1450, gave Shakespeare his first comic scenes. Moderns aren't invariably amused, and to Engels, chronicler of a peasants' rebellion, Cade and company were heroes.
This angry man of Kent, killed in 1450, gave Shakespeare his first comic scenes. Moderns aren't invariably amused, and to Engels, chronicler of a peasants' rebellion, Cade and company were heroes.
Page 19
This middle-class man, not aspiring to tapestry, hung his walls with painted cloths, eleven of these. They showed scenes from Scripture, comic-book style, not Gobelin. Balloons bearing words came out THE COUNTRY 19.
This middle-class man, not aspiring to tapestry, hung his walls with painted cloths, eleven of these. They showed scenes from Scripture, comic-book style, not Gobelin. Balloons bearing words came out THE COUNTRY 19.
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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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