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Page xxiv
... never come/ To make my heart her vassal” (Antony and Cleopatra 2.6). We remember Banquo, pledging to keep his bosom free of evil. Voluntarism governs, for him as for Shakespeare, and he does what he says he will. But age has its ...
... never come/ To make my heart her vassal” (Antony and Cleopatra 2.6). We remember Banquo, pledging to keep his bosom free of evil. Voluntarism governs, for him as for Shakespeare, and he does what he says he will. But age has its ...
Page 7
... never escaping altogether. In Henry IV, Part Two, he thinks back to Snitterfield, where his mother's father owned land. The family property in Snitterfield being subject to a law suit, acquisitive Shakespeare, collecting bits of old ...
... never escaping altogether. In Henry IV, Part Two, he thinks back to Snitterfield, where his mother's father owned land. The family property in Snitterfield being subject to a law suit, acquisitive Shakespeare, collecting bits of old ...
Page 11
... never uses "cruelty but when he hunts the hare; nor subtlety but when he setteth snares for the snipe or pitfalls for the blackbird; nor oppression but when, in the month of July, he goes to the next river and shears his sheep." Already ...
... never uses "cruelty but when he hunts the hare; nor subtlety but when he setteth snares for the snipe or pitfalls for the blackbird; nor oppression but when, in the month of July, he goes to the next river and shears his sheep." Already ...
Page 16
... never merry days in England since gentlemen came up," says a horny-handed philosopher in Shakespeare. Merry England had another side, "nasty, solitary, brutish, and short." The "gilded puddle" stood on the land, poorly drained and ...
... never merry days in England since gentlemen came up," says a horny-handed philosopher in Shakespeare. Merry England had another side, "nasty, solitary, brutish, and short." The "gilded puddle" stood on the land, poorly drained and ...
Page 17
... never more false title plead,/Nor sound his quillets shrilly." Quillets are subtleties, dispossessing the poor. In Hampton Lucy parish, they were moving the poor along before Shakespeare was born. Evicted from their houses, thirty-six ...
... never more false title plead,/Nor sound his quillets shrilly." Quillets are subtleties, dispossessing the poor. In Hampton Lucy parish, they were moving the poor along before Shakespeare was born. Evicted from their houses, thirty-six ...
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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