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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... later works prove — that he escaped that fate . Because he mastered the theater , he saw through it . And so the time seems to have come for a return to Shakespeare the poet , ✸ for a consideration of his works not merely as poetry in ...
... later works prove — that he escaped that fate . Because he mastered the theater , he saw through it . And so the time seems to have come for a return to Shakespeare the poet , ✸ for a consideration of his works not merely as poetry in ...
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... later without having read an earlier chapter . There will be some to wonder why Dostoevsky is referred to so often in this book . Shakespeare and Dostoevsky were separated by two centuries and a half . Their times , their environments ...
... later without having read an earlier chapter . There will be some to wonder why Dostoevsky is referred to so often in this book . Shakespeare and Dostoevsky were separated by two centuries and a half . Their times , their environments ...
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... its qualities ; and in its lesser writers , in its greatest ones at their worst , and in their later imitators , Shakespearean criticism degenerated into extravagance and fancy — for alongside the { { 6 } THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE.
... its qualities ; and in its lesser writers , in its greatest ones at their worst , and in their later imitators , Shakespearean criticism degenerated into extravagance and fancy — for alongside the { { 6 } THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE.
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... later . " " Let us get rid of all this subjective business , " cry all these critics in unison , " and get back to Shakespeare himself . " any Shakespeare himself ! As if Shakespeare himself were acquainted with such person , had his ...
... later . " " Let us get rid of all this subjective business , " cry all these critics in unison , " and get back to Shakespeare himself . " any Shakespeare himself ! As if Shakespeare himself were acquainted with such person , had his ...
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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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