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The quotidian side of his story, getting and selling, petitioning for a coat of arms, acquiring shares in the theater he wrote for, comments on the glamorous side, the making of the plays and poems. Sometimes it does this in negative ...
The quotidian side of his story, getting and selling, petitioning for a coat of arms, acquiring shares in the theater he wrote for, comments on the glamorous side, the making of the plays and poems. Sometimes it does this in negative ...
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In all the kinds of plays he wrote, in tragedy, no doubt, but in the histories and comedies too, his agon is primarily moral. I don't say moralizing, never that. Whether the hero wins or loses or even lives or dies isn't the play's ...
In all the kinds of plays he wrote, in tragedy, no doubt, but in the histories and comedies too, his agon is primarily moral. I don't say moralizing, never that. Whether the hero wins or loses or even lives or dies isn't the play's ...
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Not writing about his own experience, Shakespeare surely wrote from it, and his work (if all were known) is predicable of just this man, no other. On his artistic side even more than in the life, he shows himself to an eye alert for ...
Not writing about his own experience, Shakespeare surely wrote from it, and his work (if all were known) is predicable of just this man, no other. On his artistic side even more than in the life, he shows himself to an eye alert for ...
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He wrote from hatred, aggravated by self-hatred, so made a doubtful reporter. The "divers of worship" who corrected him, knowing this, meant to set the facts straight. Shakespeare's first scholars, they deserve respectful attention.
He wrote from hatred, aggravated by self-hatred, so made a doubtful reporter. The "divers of worship" who corrected him, knowing this, meant to set the facts straight. Shakespeare's first scholars, they deserve respectful attention.
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Over three hundred men wrote for the theater in the English Renaissance. More is known about Shakespeare than any of them, possibly excepting Ben Jonson. He had his proper start in life, "born anew of water and the Holy Ghost.
Over three hundred men wrote for the theater in the English Renaissance. More is known about Shakespeare than any of them, possibly excepting Ben Jonson. He had his proper start in life, "born anew of water and the Holy Ghost.
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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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