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(1.1) This passage became my touchstone for “Pelagian” Shakespeare, who doesn't believe there's a crack in the bowl and thinks our free will has no limit. Helena is like that, none more aggressive among Shakespeare's heroines.
(1.1) This passage became my touchstone for “Pelagian” Shakespeare, who doesn't believe there's a crack in the bowl and thinks our free will has no limit. Helena is like that, none more aggressive among Shakespeare's heroines.
Page xxii
This patented romance ending, which might please, leaves Shakespeare uneasy, looking shrewdly at a heroine who thinks our remedies lie in ourselves. on the one hand her ideology supposes a greater power than we can contradict (“the ...
This patented romance ending, which might please, leaves Shakespeare uneasy, looking shrewdly at a heroine who thinks our remedies lie in ourselves. on the one hand her ideology supposes a greater power than we can contradict (“the ...
Page xxiii
He thinks “There's place and means for every man alive” (4.3). Shakespeare's psychology meets St. Thomas's in one particular, that his characters, all of them, have “the wisdom by their wit to lose” (Merchant of Venice 2.9).
He thinks “There's place and means for every man alive” (4.3). Shakespeare's psychology meets St. Thomas's in one particular, that his characters, all of them, have “the wisdom by their wit to lose” (Merchant of Venice 2.9).
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Persons infected with it “strut to their confusion” (Antony and Cleopatra 3.13), a sequitur, Shakespeare thinks. He derives it from human nature, which sets limits on the things we can do. We can't tear ourselves from our roots, ...
Persons infected with it “strut to their confusion” (Antony and Cleopatra 3.13), a sequitur, Shakespeare thinks. He derives it from human nature, which sets limits on the things we can do. We can't tear ourselves from our roots, ...
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Many think this hopeful sentiment, emphasizing willed behavior, supplies a key to happy endings. I think that Shakespeare in age looked at it wryly. His last plays emphasize our legacy from birth, the difference maker determining ...
Many think this hopeful sentiment, emphasizing willed behavior, supplies a key to happy endings. I think that Shakespeare in age looked at it wryly. His last plays emphasize our legacy from birth, the difference maker determining ...
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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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