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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... , there is another deeper kind of indebtedness which I wish not only to acknowledge but to stress : namely , to those recent explorers in the realm of the unconscious among the wisest of whom are Samuel THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE.
... , there is another deeper kind of indebtedness which I wish not only to acknowledge but to stress : namely , to those recent explorers in the realm of the unconscious among the wisest of whom are Samuel THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE.
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... kind what our attitude toward him should be . He himself , when he is dealing with another genius , Plutarch , preserves a fidelity to his original that he does not exhibit toward writers of a lower order . How much greater should be ...
... kind what our attitude toward him should be . He himself , when he is dealing with another genius , Plutarch , preserves a fidelity to his original that he does not exhibit toward writers of a lower order . How much greater should be ...
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... kind of rough genius but contended that he lacked art — which he did , in their sense . They served a purpose in pointing out some of Shakespeare's excesses . But they showed how powerless reason is to grasp imagination . The romantic ...
... kind of rough genius but contended that he lacked art — which he did , in their sense . They served a purpose in pointing out some of Shakespeare's excesses . But they showed how powerless reason is to grasp imagination . The romantic ...
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... kind of subjective business of their own . For the objective business that is the object of their search is neither a whit better nor a whit worse than the subjective business that is the subject of their scorn . The two are extremes ...
... kind of subjective business of their own . For the objective business that is the object of their search is neither a whit better nor a whit worse than the subjective business that is the subject of their scorn . The two are extremes ...
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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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