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Page x
... darkness lurk about the edges of his fabulous play, not only the lion but thorny hedgehogs, newts and blindworms, spotted snakes, spiders, the clamorous owl. They mean mischief, and the ladies have reason to fear. “Pluck this crawling ...
... darkness lurk about the edges of his fabulous play, not only the lion but thorny hedgehogs, newts and blindworms, spotted snakes, spiders, the clamorous owl. They mean mischief, and the ladies have reason to fear. “Pluck this crawling ...
Page xvi
... dark galleries of the Public record office, London, they found a treasure of uncataloged papers, including ... darkness that hid Shakespeare and his contemporaries from view. When his close friend the Shelley scholar newman White died ...
... dark galleries of the Public record office, London, they found a treasure of uncataloged papers, including ... darkness that hid Shakespeare and his contemporaries from view. When his close friend the Shelley scholar newman White died ...
Page xxiii
... darkness. Illusion, incarnate in the airborne dagger, leads the hero on and confounds him. Equivocal sayings beguile his “dull brain,” taking his “reason prisoner” (1.3). The evil he does is a “violent love” outrunning reason (2.3). He ...
... darkness. Illusion, incarnate in the airborne dagger, leads the hero on and confounds him. Equivocal sayings beguile his “dull brain,” taking his “reason prisoner” (1.3). The evil he does is a “violent love” outrunning reason (2.3). He ...
Page xxxii
... dark backward of time, Elizabethan Shakespeare bristles with difference. This has its compensation, and his singularity helps set him before us, "the strangest fellow," as they say of Falstaff, but visibly there. His age, like our own ...
... dark backward of time, Elizabethan Shakespeare bristles with difference. This has its compensation, and his singularity helps set him before us, "the strangest fellow," as they say of Falstaff, but visibly there. His age, like our own ...
Page 9
... darkness in his arms like a bride. Good lines, Shakespeare thought, but he didn't emulate Blessed John Houghton. When Catholic peasants revolted in their Pilgrimage of Grace (1536), the king's generals hanged them on trees in the ...
... darkness in his arms like a bride. Good lines, Shakespeare thought, but he didn't emulate Blessed John Houghton. When Catholic peasants revolted in their Pilgrimage of Grace (1536), the king's generals hanged them on trees in the ...
Contents
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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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