The SonnetsNew American Library, 1988 - 246 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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Page 207
... Prince Henry , to Angelo , to Troilus , to the Greek army ; getting further from the original as time went on . I shall look at the first two . It is only partly true that this untidy process , if successful , might tell one more about ...
... Prince Henry , to Angelo , to Troilus , to the Greek army ; getting further from the original as time went on . I shall look at the first two . It is only partly true that this untidy process , if successful , might tell one more about ...
Page 208
... Prince Henry , different both in their power and their coldness , is an essential part of its breadth . The crucial first soliloquy of Prince Henry was put in to save his reputation with the audience ; it is a willful de- struction of ...
... Prince Henry , different both in their power and their coldness , is an essential part of its breadth . The crucial first soliloquy of Prince Henry was put in to save his reputation with the audience ; it is a willful de- struction of ...
Page 211
... prince at once robbed him of it ; supposedly to give back to its owner , if you take his reluctance to steal seriously , but we hear no more of that.1 He says he will give it to Francis the drawer , and Falstaff pacifies the hostess by ...
... prince at once robbed him of it ; supposedly to give back to its owner , if you take his reluctance to steal seriously , but we hear no more of that.1 He says he will give it to Francis the drawer , and Falstaff pacifies the hostess by ...
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