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Page xi
Befitting my subject, I have done my best to get it right, and hope at a minimum that readers will call tenable what I put for true. Much of the material concerning Shakespeare's life is now in the public domain.
Befitting my subject, I have done my best to get it right, and hope at a minimum that readers will call tenable what I put for true. Much of the material concerning Shakespeare's life is now in the public domain.
Page xvii
... as the ending approaches, wondering how things will turn out. The same is true of Twelfth Night, a comedy that verges on farce. But we know how the play will turn out, do InTroducTIon To THE TrAnSAcTIon EdITIon xvii.
... as the ending approaches, wondering how things will turn out. The same is true of Twelfth Night, a comedy that verges on farce. But we know how the play will turn out, do InTroducTIon To THE TrAnSAcTIon EdITIon xvii.
Page xxxi
"Nothing will come of nothing," as true for Shakespeare as anybody else. As a teacher, I have tended to concentrate on Shakespeare's text, downplaying other things, the life, the background, and so on. But practical criticism differs ...
"Nothing will come of nothing," as true for Shakespeare as anybody else. As a teacher, I have tended to concentrate on Shakespeare's text, downplaying other things, the life, the background, and so on. But practical criticism differs ...
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Shakespeare's plays not being true confessions, the likeness is skewed, as with those cunning pictures — "perspectives," he calls them — which when looked at straight on "show nothing but confusion." To sort out the confusion, ...
Shakespeare's plays not being true confessions, the likeness is skewed, as with those cunning pictures — "perspectives," he calls them — which when looked at straight on "show nothing but confusion." To sort out the confusion, ...
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But A Midsummer Night's Dream has its dark colors, Shakespeare's comedy, true to life, needing a moiety of shadow. The oxen stretch their yoke in vain, the ploughman loses his sweat, and the sheep-pen stands empty in the flooded fields.
But A Midsummer Night's Dream has its dark colors, Shakespeare's comedy, true to life, needing a moiety of shadow. The oxen stretch their yoke in vain, the ploughman loses his sweat, and the sheep-pen stands empty in the flooded fields.
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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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