Poetics of Shakespeare's Plays

action Ariel Banquo blood Boris Pasternak Caliban calls carnival Cassio century characters chronicles Claudius clown comic conscience consciousness contrast Cordelia dark death Desdemona doth drama Duncan eternal evil evokes expressed eyes Falstaff Ferdinand feudal final fool functions genre Gentlemen of Verona Goneril grotesque Hamlet harmony hath heart Hermia human Iago Iago's ingratitude inner monologue Iris Murdoch ironical irony King Claudius King Henry King Lear Lady Macbeth language laughter Lear's life's lines linked lives Lord Love's Labour Lost Lysander madness man's metaphors Midsummer Night's Dream mind Miranda mock moral murder nature opens Othello paradoxically parody passion poetic poetry Polonius present Prince Hal Prospero Puck quoted Renaissance rhythm Richard Romeo and Juliet says scene sense Shakespeare's comedies Shakespeare's plays sleep Sonnet speaks speech stage symmetry Tempest thee theme Theseus Thomas Mann thou tion title hero tragedy tragic Twelfth Night uttering witches Wittenberg words