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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... effect , and so on . That in his earlier career the theater did nearly " get " him , Shakespeare himself tells us in one of the Sonnets . But he plainly implies what his later works prove — that he escaped that fate . Because he ...
... effect , and so on . That in his earlier career the theater did nearly " get " him , Shakespeare himself tells us in one of the Sonnets . But he plainly implies what his later works prove — that he escaped that fate . Because he ...
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... effects that Shakespeare was unaware the text contained ? Or that if he had seen her he would have approved ? Chekhov has some wise words on this subject : " When I was given the part of Anissya in Tolstoy's Power of Darkness , " says ...
... effects that Shakespeare was unaware the text contained ? Or that if he had seen her he would have approved ? Chekhov has some wise words on this subject : " When I was given the part of Anissya in Tolstoy's Power of Darkness , " says ...
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... effect : " Talk about catching the tone of a vanished society to understand Rembrandt or Giovanni Bellini ! It is non- sense the folds do not thicken in front of these men ; we understand them as well as those among whom they went about ...
... effect : " Talk about catching the tone of a vanished society to understand Rembrandt or Giovanni Bellini ! It is non- sense the folds do not thicken in front of these men ; we understand them as well as those among whom they went about ...
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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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