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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 henry James, left no notebooks intimating connections. a ...
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 henry James, left no notebooks intimating connections. a ...
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It seems we are helpless, floating on a wild and violent sea (4.2). But this is only one side of the coin. once more “two truths are told,” and only a partial view will say that Macbeth is fooled, leaving it at that.
It seems we are helpless, floating on a wild and violent sea (4.2). But this is only one side of the coin. once more “two truths are told,” and only a partial view will say that Macbeth is fooled, leaving it at that.
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Whether the canker we are born with, called in The Winter's Tale “the imposition hereditary ours” (1.2), is original sin or proneness to entropy seems not to matter much. one way or another, we are slaves of nature.
Whether the canker we are born with, called in The Winter's Tale “the imposition hereditary ours” (1.2), is original sin or proneness to entropy seems not to matter much. one way or another, we are slaves of nature.
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Knowing Shakespeare a little before getting started seems important, though. Anyone who engages to write a book like this one needs all the help he can get. I have had a lot of help and acknowledge it gratefully. (For once it seems ...
Knowing Shakespeare a little before getting started seems important, though. Anyone who engages to write a book like this one needs all the help he can get. I have had a lot of help and acknowledge it gratefully. (For once it seems ...
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This name has its decorum but the provenance seems unlikely. On the paternal side, the Shakespeares lived in Snitterfield, a tiny village four miles northeast of Stratford in rolling hills and meadows, colored yellow with gorse.
This name has its decorum but the provenance seems unlikely. On the paternal side, the Shakespeares lived in Snitterfield, a tiny village four miles northeast of Stratford in rolling hills and meadows, colored yellow with gorse.
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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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