Shakespeare : A Life: A LifeClarendon Press, 1998 M10 29 - 480 pages In the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date narrative of Shakespeare's life ever written, Park Honan uses a wealth of fresh information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet, and playwright. The young poet's relationships, his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, and his own daughters, are seen in a new light, illuminating Shakespeare's needs, habits, passions and concerns. Park Honan examines the world of the playing companies -- the power of patronage, theatrical conditions, and personal rivalries -- to reveal the relationship between the man and the writing, and using previously unpublished material explores the causes of Shakespeare's success; Stratford childhood, his parents' capabilities, and his preparations for a London career. Shakespeare: A Life casts new light on the complexity and fascination of Shakespeare's life and his extraordinary development as an artist. |
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... shake terribly the earth. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? You see my friend, God is going to shake this earth like a child shakes a rag doll. He is going to shake it until all of ...
... shake terribly the earth. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? You see my friend, God is going to shake this earth like a child shakes a rag doll. He is going to shake it until all of ...
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... shake up” my life. A picture of the Chinese symbol for chaos hangs in the bathroom of my home. It reads, “Before the ... shake it up. You shake it up because all of the good, juicy herbs have settled to the bottom of the bottle. In order ...
... shake up” my life. A picture of the Chinese symbol for chaos hangs in the bathroom of my home. It reads, “Before the ... shake it up. You shake it up because all of the good, juicy herbs have settled to the bottom of the bottle. In order ...
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A New Zealand Annual. The Dream Tree . " Thy mother shakes the Dream Tree high . " - German Lullaby . * Nout , an Egyptian goddess of the dark early void . HIS DAILY By G. B. LANCASTER . MY DEAREST . SHAKE , shake the Dream Tree ! Mother ...
A New Zealand Annual. The Dream Tree . " Thy mother shakes the Dream Tree high . " - German Lullaby . * Nout , an Egyptian goddess of the dark early void . HIS DAILY By G. B. LANCASTER . MY DEAREST . SHAKE , shake the Dream Tree ! Mother ...
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Page 283 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 216 - This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 140 - Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, . Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 213 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 293 - Were I the Moor, I would not be lago: In following him, I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end...
Page 295 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes. Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes; And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 332 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Page 191 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.
Page 314 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.