Reclamations of ShakespeareA. J. Hoenselaars Rodopi, 1994 - 317 pages |
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... comedy of his body language with his hat . But behind this simple comedy lies a more menacing point with a bearing on the tragic denouement . In the previous scene , at Ophelia's graveside , Hamlet had declared his return from England ...
... comedy of his body language with his hat . But behind this simple comedy lies a more menacing point with a bearing on the tragic denouement . In the previous scene , at Ophelia's graveside , Hamlet had declared his return from England ...
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... Comedy of Errors ( now dated 1594 ) .13 In this early comedy , there is talk of a fat kitchen - wench , who is all grease and so fat that she is spherical like a globe on which one can see countries . Antipholus of Syracuse asks " Where ...
... Comedy of Errors ( now dated 1594 ) .13 In this early comedy , there is talk of a fat kitchen - wench , who is all grease and so fat that she is spherical like a globe on which one can see countries . Antipholus of Syracuse asks " Where ...
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... comedy . Our last item of historical and contemporary relevance is connected with the exposure of Parolles , which is the central feature of the fourth act and of great significance in the context of the whole play . Editors usually ...
... comedy . Our last item of historical and contemporary relevance is connected with the exposure of Parolles , which is the central feature of the fourth act and of great significance in the context of the whole play . Editors usually ...
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... comedy . It is beyond doubt that Shakespeare wrote his plays for a socially heterogeneous audience , but it may still be possible to indicate that he expected differing responses to them . 1 As an actor and sharer in the most important ...
... comedy . It is beyond doubt that Shakespeare wrote his plays for a socially heterogeneous audience , but it may still be possible to indicate that he expected differing responses to them . 1 As an actor and sharer in the most important ...
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... comedy by learnedly insulting the audience , Shakespeare may have deliberately worked into his comedy old - fashioned elements from romances which had recently been printed , pleasing his audience by joking learnedly with them . For the ...
... comedy by learnedly insulting the audience , Shakespeare may have deliberately worked into his comedy old - fashioned elements from romances which had recently been printed , pleasing his audience by joking learnedly with them . For the ...
Contents
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The Rape of Lucrece and the Story of W | 75 |
Hearsay Soothsay | 105 |
Gender and Genre in Shakespeares Tragicomedies | 129 |
The Poet Laureates National Poet | 159 |
Myth Memory and Music | 173 |
Music as Meaning in The Tempest | 187 |
Another Look at | 201 |
Mapping Shakespeares Europe | 223 |
Every Word in Shakespeare | 273 |
Notes on Contributors | 303 |
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Page 235 - I tell you, captain, — if you look in the maps of the "orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth...
Page 214 - Not to a rage. Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears Were like, a better way.
Page 74 - His legs bestrid the ocean : his rear'd arm Crested the world : his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There...
Page 103 - If the object becomes allegorical under the gaze of melancholy, if melancholy causes life to flow out of it and it remains behind dead, but eternally secure, then it is exposed to the allegorist, it is unconditionally in his power. That is to say it is now quite incapable of emanating any meaning or significance of its own; such significance as it has, it acquires from the allegorist.
Page 221 - From Paris next, coasting the realm of France, We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine, Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines; Then up to Naples, rich Campania, Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, The streets straight forth, and paved with finest brick; Quarter the town in four equivalents. There saw we learned Maro's...
Page 176 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmixed with baser matter.
Page 206 - If you would have your kennell for sweetnesse of cry, then you must compound it of some large dogges, that have deepe solemne mouthes, and are swift in spending, which must, as it were, beare the base in the consort, then a double number of roaring, and loud ringing mouthes, which must beare the counter tenour, then some hollow, plaine, sweete mouthes, which must beare the meane or middle part ; and soe with these three parts of musicke you shall make your cry perfect.
Page 50 - The poet never maketh any circles about your imagination, to conjure you to believe for true what he writes.
References to this book
Shakespeare, Reception and Translation: Germany and Japan Friedrike Von Schwerin-High No preview available - 2004 |