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... land” (Hamlet 5.1). Whatever he is, apprehending him must “conduce to the better understanding (of) his book.” nicholas rowe, Shakespeare's first biographer, said this three hundred years ago. My book is written in that conviction ...
... land” (Hamlet 5.1). Whatever he is, apprehending him must “conduce to the better understanding (of) his book.” nicholas rowe, Shakespeare's first biographer, said this three hundred years ago. My book is written in that conviction ...
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... land. It showed like a crazy quilt, sliced by grassy pathways, hedgerows, and balks of turf. No better than they should be, farmers in Snitterfield poached on their neighbor's land or reaped their neighbor's crops. If you didn't mend ...
... land. It showed like a crazy quilt, sliced by grassy pathways, hedgerows, and balks of turf. No better than they should be, farmers in Snitterfield poached on their neighbor's land or reaped their neighbor's crops. If you didn't mend ...
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... land, not inert but vital, like a man's body. Or the body was like the land. Merging the worker in his vineyard and the other way round, Shakespeare discovered his most potent image, on the tip of his tongue when he groped to say what ...
... land, not inert but vital, like a man's body. Or the body was like the land. Merging the worker in his vineyard and the other way round, Shakespeare discovered his most potent image, on the tip of his tongue when he groped to say what ...
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... land. The family property in Snitterfield being subject to a law suit, acquisitive Shakespeare, collecting bits of old string, took note of the commissioners adjudicating this. In 1581 or thereabouts he wrote their names in his "table ...
... land. The family property in Snitterfield being subject to a law suit, acquisitive Shakespeare, collecting bits of old string, took note of the commissioners adjudicating this. In 1581 or thereabouts he wrote their names in his "table ...
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... land. They held it by old custom, and their tenants and copyholders (men tenured by the manor lord) appealed to custom too. This nice reticulating, where one man's right depended on the rights of others, went out with the monks and the ...
... land. They held it by old custom, and their tenants and copyholders (men tenured by the manor lord) appealed to custom too. This nice reticulating, where one man's right depended on the rights of others, went out with the monks and the ...
Contents
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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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