The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1, Volume 1University of Chicago Press, 2009 M02 15 - 408 pages In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius. |
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... ask with profit what Shakespeare has to say specifically to it . Twice within three decades our own time has called on its younger generation to avenge a wrong with the making of which it had nothing to do . For whom , then , if not for ...
... ask with profit what Shakespeare has to say specifically to it . Twice within three decades our own time has called on its younger generation to avenge a wrong with the making of which it had nothing to do . For whom , then , if not for ...
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... ask him how he would prefer to have his plays taken . As it happens , there is a passage in one of them that may give us a clue as to what his answer to this very question might have been . It is in Cym- beline — the scene in which the ...
... ask him how he would prefer to have his plays taken . As it happens , there is a passage in one of them that may give us a clue as to what his answer to this very question might have been . It is in Cym- beline — the scene in which the ...
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... ask me what idea I meant to embody in Faust , " said Goethe , " as if I knew myself , and could inform them . " And Bernard Shaw has as good as said that he doesn't pretend to know more about the characters in his own plays than anyone ...
... ask me what idea I meant to embody in Faust , " said Goethe , " as if I knew myself , and could inform them . " And Bernard Shaw has as good as said that he doesn't pretend to know more about the characters in his own plays than anyone ...
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Contents
1 | |
II The Integrity of Shakespeare | 15 |
III The Comedy of Errors | 25 |
IV The Three Parts of Henry VI | 28 |
V Titus Andronicus | 33 |
VI Richard III | 35 |
VII The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 41 |
VIII Loves Labours Lost | 48 |
XIV King John | 140 |
XV Richard II | 148 |
XVI Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part II The Merry Wives of Windsor | 161 |
XVII Henry V | 215 |
XVIII Henry VIII | 269 |
XIX Much Ado about Nothing | 271 |
XX As You Like It | 281 |
XXI Twelfth Night | 294 |
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