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
... present time is a comment on the long ascendency of the historical school of criticism in Shakespeare study . In stressing what Shakespeare meant to the Elizabethan age the historical critics have helped us forget what he viii THE ...
... present time is a comment on the long ascendency of the historical school of criticism in Shakespeare study . In stressing what Shakespeare meant to the Elizabethan age the historical critics have helped us forget what he viii THE ...
Page ix
... present understanding of him , may be the most impor- tant one in all Shakespeare's works . " Behold , I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves : be ye therefore wise as serpents , and harmless as doves , " said Jesus to his ...
... present understanding of him , may be the most impor- tant one in all Shakespeare's works . " Behold , I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves : be ye therefore wise as serpents , and harmless as doves , " said Jesus to his ...
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... present , not just to record the past . It is not often necessary to wrench a text so far from its original sense as Swift did on this occasion . But better that than that one Dublin tailor should be lost . Most of Jesus ' listeners ...
... present , not just to record the past . It is not often necessary to wrench a text so far from its original sense as Swift did on this occasion . But better that than that one Dublin tailor should be lost . Most of Jesus ' listeners ...
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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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