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Page ix
... stand on their own, and saying where they and poems come from or what they reflect needs self-discipline and a large dose of tact. Shakespeare, less forthcoming than henry James, left no notebooks intimating connections. a few [ ix ]
... stand on their own, and saying where they and poems come from or what they reflect needs self-discipline and a large dose of tact. Shakespeare, less forthcoming than henry James, left no notebooks intimating connections. a few [ ix ]
Page xiv
... poems as well as the life record. despite what you often hear, the record is substantial. Many look behind it, however, from snobbery, mischievousness, or enthralled by an idée fixe, seeking another Shakespeare than the one it presents ...
... poems as well as the life record. despite what you often hear, the record is substantial. Many look behind it, however, from snobbery, mischievousness, or enthralled by an idée fixe, seeking another Shakespeare than the one it presents ...
Page xvii
... poems. This is my conceit, the old-fashioned word meaning a flight of fancy, but I ask the reader to indulge it and to believe that I am jesting in earnest. Essential Shakespeare is the playwright of the agon, the Greek word for an ...
... poems. This is my conceit, the old-fashioned word meaning a flight of fancy, but I ask the reader to indulge it and to believe that I am jesting in earnest. Essential Shakespeare is the playwright of the agon, the Greek word for an ...
Page xviii
... poems of the second rank evade this danger by sticking to exclusive categories whose sense is either/or. I hate or I love but never “odi et amo,” both together. In Shakespeare's inclusive art these opposites coexist, preserving their ...
... poems of the second rank evade this danger by sticking to exclusive categories whose sense is either/or. I hate or I love but never “odi et amo,” both together. In Shakespeare's inclusive art these opposites coexist, preserving their ...
Page xxii
... hanged. But Shakespeare, knowing of many “Who with best meaning have incurred the worst” (King Lear, 5.3), has little time for poetic justice. He lacks the philosophic mind, and where xxii InTroducTIon To THE TrAnSAcTIon EdITIon.
... hanged. But Shakespeare, knowing of many “Who with best meaning have incurred the worst” (King Lear, 5.3), has little time for poetic justice. He lacks the philosophic mind, and where xxii InTroducTIon To THE TrAnSAcTIon EdITIon.
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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