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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... moment . We all remember some familiar tale , some proverb or maxim long accepted as true , that one day suddenly lighted up what was hap- pening with such vividness that we realized we had never understood it till that instant . A dead ...
... moment . We all remember some familiar tale , some proverb or maxim long accepted as true , that one day suddenly lighted up what was hap- pening with such vividness that we realized we had never understood it till that instant . A dead ...
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... moment playing my Etudes and he transports me out of my proper senses . I should like to steal from him his way of playing my pieces . " And Chopin was not the only one . " I wish you could have heard Liszt this morning , " wrote ...
... moment playing my Etudes and he transports me out of my proper senses . I should like to steal from him his way of playing my pieces . " And Chopin was not the only one . " I wish you could have heard Liszt this morning , " wrote ...
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... moment , both of which are realities ? " Poetry , " says Emerson , " must be as new as foam , and as old as the rock . " The foam is the unique experience of the moment , a matter of individual temperament ; the rock is the practically ...
... moment , both of which are realities ? " Poetry , " says Emerson , " must be as new as foam , and as old as the rock . " The foam is the unique experience of the moment , a matter of individual temperament ; the rock is the practically ...
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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