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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Page viii
... imagination does not work that way . How it does work , Sir Thomas Browne once made clear when he exclaimed : " Now for my life , it is a miracle of thirty years , which to relate were not a History , but a piece of Poetry , and would ...
... imagination does not work that way . How it does work , Sir Thomas Browne once made clear when he exclaimed : " Now for my life , it is a miracle of thirty years , which to relate were not a History , but a piece of Poetry , and would ...
Page ix
... Imagination in the widest and deepest sense : imagination , that language in which all languages are written , that language within which the poet conceals himself as utterly from the crowd and from seekers after pleasure and power as ...
... Imagination in the widest and deepest sense : imagination , that language in which all languages are written , that language within which the poet conceals himself as utterly from the crowd and from seekers after pleasure and power as ...
Page x
... imagination . I have barely scratched the surface of the subject in this volume . Anyone who has gone on reading Shakespeare for years and then writes a book about him is bound to be at a loss if asked just what he owes to the text ...
... imagination . I have barely scratched the surface of the subject in this volume . Anyone who has gone on reading Shakespeare for years and then writes a book about him is bound to be at a loss if asked just what he owes to the text ...
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... imaginative . They listen in character . says Belarius of the older boy , Jove ! When on my three - foot stool I sit and tell The war - like feats I have done , his spirits fly out Into my story : say , " Thus mine enemy fell , And thus ...
... imaginative . They listen in character . says Belarius of the older boy , Jove ! When on my three - foot stool I sit and tell The war - like feats I have done , his spirits fly out Into my story : say , " Thus mine enemy fell , And thus ...
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... imagination works and what the nature of poetry is . Poetry is not something that exists in printed words on the page . It is not even something that exists in nature , in sunshine or in moonlight . Nor on the other hand is it something ...
... imagination works and what the nature of poetry is . Poetry is not something that exists in printed words on the page . It is not even something that exists in nature , in sunshine or in moonlight . Nor on the other hand is it something ...
Contents
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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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