Troilus and CressidaClassic Books Company, 2000 - 272 pages "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: |
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... called for by his office , though his contributions are not of such a nature that one can attach a symbol to them . He has , in fact , been co- editor as well as General Editor ; and his work has been of basic importance . I have ...
... called for by his office , though his contributions are not of such a nature that one can attach a symbol to them . He has , in fact , been co- editor as well as General Editor ; and his work has been of basic importance . I have ...
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... called third and fourth editions of Theobald ( 1752 , 1762 ) because they appeared after Theobald's death and have no known authority ( although I have included two or three readings from each on occasion ) , and also the ambitious ...
... called third and fourth editions of Theobald ( 1752 , 1762 ) because they appeared after Theobald's death and have no known authority ( although I have included two or three readings from each on occasion ) , and also the ambitious ...
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... called " Second " on the title pages . His real second was an edition of all the plays in one volume issued in 1853 ; it incorporates the manuscript corrections in his Perkins Folio , which he had published for the Shakespeare Society ...
... called " Second " on the title pages . His real second was an edition of all the plays in one volume issued in 1853 ; it incorporates the manuscript corrections in his Perkins Folio , which he had published for the Shakespeare Society ...
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... called upon ( perhaps by Shakespeare himself ) to write it . May it not be his ? -COWDEN CLARKE ( ed . 1868 ) : It has been conjectured that this prologue was not written by Shakespeare ; but we think that if examined carefully it will ...
... called upon ( perhaps by Shakespeare himself ) to write it . May it not be his ? -COWDEN CLARKE ( ed . 1868 ) : It has been conjectured that this prologue was not written by Shakespeare ; but we think that if examined carefully it will ...
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... called antisthecon . - B . I.ii.8 . as a Vertue fixt ] THEOBALD ( ed . 1733 , quoting Warburton ) : What's the Meaning of Hector's Patience being fix'd " as a Virtue ? " Is not Patience a Virtue ? What Room then for the Similitude ? The ...
... called antisthecon . - B . I.ii.8 . as a Vertue fixt ] THEOBALD ( ed . 1733 , quoting Warburton ) : What's the Meaning of Hector's Patience being fix'd " as a Virtue ? " Is not Patience a Virtue ? What Room then for the Similitude ? The ...
Contents
The Preface in | 350 |
The War of the Theaters | 375 |
Summary | 396 |
A Strange Fellow | 411 |
Structural Analysis and Staging | 450 |
The Admirals Plot | 462 |
Dryden | 489 |
Troilus on the Modern Stage | 505 |
LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED O 571587 | 571 |
0 | 609 |
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Page 177 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight. Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes, Which thou dost glare with.
Page 41 - Create her child of spleen ; that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her ! Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth ; With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks ; Turn all her mother's pains and benefits To laughter and contempt ; that she may feel How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child ! Away, away ! [Exit.
Page 551 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 186 - And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply Passion as they...
Page 96 - ... come, tell us your reason : what sayest thou to this ? Poins. Come, your reason, Jack, your reason. Fal. What, upon compulsion ? 'Zounds, an I were at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.
Page 389 - For that which all men then did vertue call, Is now cald vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight vertue, and so vs'd of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right, As all things else in time are chaunged quight.
Page 564 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 257 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions...
Page 390 - And as it cometh to pass in a kingdom rightly ordered, that after a law is once published, it presently takes effect far and wide, all states framing themselves thereunto; even so let us think it fareth in the natural course of the world: since the time that God did first proclaim the edicts of his law upon it, heaven and earth have hearkened unto his voice, and their labour hath been to do his will...