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... and its vision of things was what he had to work with. Cultural historians, alert to that, emphasize the timeserver, truckling to the establishment or the groundlings in the pit. But he shows his back above the element he lived in, ...
... and its vision of things was what he had to work with. Cultural historians, alert to that, emphasize the timeserver, truckling to the establishment or the groundlings in the pit. But he shows his back above the element he lived in, ...
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He derives it from human nature, which sets limits on the things we can do. We can't tear ourselves from our roots, says a pivotal text in King Lear (4.2), not without mortal consequence. That nature which contemns its origin cannot be ...
He derives it from human nature, which sets limits on the things we can do. We can't tear ourselves from our roots, says a pivotal text in King Lear (4.2), not without mortal consequence. That nature which contemns its origin cannot be ...
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Shakespearean comedy, taking the direction of things out of our hands, is pessimistic. Paradoxically Shakespearean tragedy is hopeful. Enacting conflict and choice, it drives on an ending that isn't tendered but earned.
Shakespearean comedy, taking the direction of things out of our hands, is pessimistic. Paradoxically Shakespearean tragedy is hopeful. Enacting conflict and choice, it drives on an ending that isn't tendered but earned.
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... Lady Jane Grey, his daughter-in-law. Eight years before Richard Shakespeare died, the two of them died on the scaffold. Not meddling in princes' matters, Shakespeare's grandfather watched the up and down, saying inoffensive things ...
... Lady Jane Grey, his daughter-in-law. Eight years before Richard Shakespeare died, the two of them died on the scaffold. Not meddling in princes' matters, Shakespeare's grandfather watched the up and down, saying inoffensive things ...
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green thing from grasses to trees. Green things made part of a fraternity for Shakespeare, gathered from the life and his reading of Scripture. A boy in Stratford church, he read the First Epistle of Peter: "For all flesh is as grass, ...
green thing from grasses to trees. Green things made part of a fraternity for Shakespeare, gathered from the life and his reading of Scripture. A boy in Stratford church, he read the First Epistle of Peter: "For all flesh is as grass, ...
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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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