The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1, Volume 1University of Chicago Press, 2009 M02 15 - 408 pages In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius. |
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Page vii
... Shakespeare . " Anyone who feels that way should never have produced such a book . For my part , I believe we are nearer the beginning than the end of our understanding of Shakespeare's genius . Poetry forever makes itself over for each ...
... Shakespeare . " Anyone who feels that way should never have produced such a book . For my part , I believe we are nearer the beginning than the end of our understanding of Shakespeare's genius . Poetry forever makes itself over for each ...
Page viii
... Shakespeare since the publication of An Essay on the Dramatic Charac- ter of Sir John Falstaff . Many of them are ... Shakespeare in detail is bound to be a long book . And Shakespeare deserves to be considered as a whole . I should like ...
... Shakespeare since the publication of An Essay on the Dramatic Charac- ter of Sir John Falstaff . Many of them are ... Shakespeare in detail is bound to be a long book . And Shakespeare deserves to be considered as a whole . I should like ...
Page ix
... Shakespeare . It is they who are forever insisting that Shake- speare was primarily a playwright , always concerned first of all with the theater , with dramatic construction , stagecraft , acting , scenic effect , and so on . That in ...
... Shakespeare . It is they who are forever insisting that Shake- speare was primarily a playwright , always concerned first of all with the theater , with dramatic construction , stagecraft , acting , scenic effect , and so on . That in ...
Page x
... Shakespeare's plays are parts of a larger whole . Those who read only about a particular play must expect , therefore , occasional references to other plays which may sound heretical , or passages ( only brief ones , I hope ) which are ...
... Shakespeare's plays are parts of a larger whole . Those who read only about a particular play must expect , therefore , occasional references to other plays which may sound heretical , or passages ( only brief ones , I hope ) which are ...
Page 1
... Shakespeare's works , and he has been charged — both as virtue and weak- ness — with having no philosophy . The ... Shakespeare , though he too is variously held to have been everything from a shrewd businessman to a dreamer and mystic ...
... Shakespeare's works , and he has been charged — both as virtue and weak- ness — with having no philosophy . The ... Shakespeare , though he too is variously held to have been everything from a shrewd businessman to a dreamer and mystic ...
Contents
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V Titus Andronicus | 33 |
VI Richard III | 35 |
VII The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 41 |
VIII Loves Labours Lost | 48 |
XIV King John | 140 |
XV Richard II | 148 |
XVI Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part II The Merry Wives of Windsor | 161 |
XVII Henry V | 215 |
XVIII Henry VIII | 269 |
XIX Much Ado about Nothing | 271 |
XX As You Like It | 281 |
XXI Twelfth Night | 294 |
IX The PoetPlaywright | 55 |
X The Taming of the Shrew | 68 |
XI A MidsummerNights Dream | 74 |
XII The Merchant of Venice | 81 |
XIII Romeo and Juliet | 117 |
XXII Julius Caesar | 307 |
XXIII Hamlet | 331 |
Index | 387 |
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Antonio Bassanio battle beginning blood Brutus called Capulet casket Cassius character Comedy Comedy of Errors comes cries critics crown dead death devil disguise doth dramatic Duke eyes fact Falstaff father fear fool genius Gentlemen of Verona Ghost give Hamlet hath heart heaven Henry Henry IV Henry VI Henry's hero honor Hotspur imagination Julius Caesar Justice kill King Lear King's Laertes lines lord lover Merchant of Venice Mercutio mercy metaphor Midsummer-Night's Dream mind moral mother murder nature never night peace play poet poetry Polonius Portia Prince revenge Richard Richard II Romeo and Juliet Rosalind says scene seems sense Shake Shakespeare Shylock soul speak speech spirit story sweet symbol tell theater theatrical thee theme things thou thought throne Touchstone tragedy true truth turns Twelfth Night Tybalt unconscious utter words youth