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
... 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 generation , and I cannot conceive a time that ...
... 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 generation , and I cannot conceive a time that ...
Page 3
... never understood it till that instant . A dead truth had become a living one . I think of an almost absurd example . It concerns a little boy who might have been Cadwal at an earlier age . He had been gently reprimanded by his aunt for ...
... never understood it till that instant . A dead truth had become a living one . I think of an almost absurd example . It concerns a little boy who might have been Cadwal at an earlier age . He had been gently reprimanded by his aunt for ...
Page 7
... never forget that he was a playwright , " say the theatrical critics , " that he thought of his works as dramas to be per- formed by actors before an audience , not as literature to be read , either then , or , much less , centuries ...
... never forget that he was a playwright , " say the theatrical critics , " that he thought of his works as dramas to be per- formed by actors before an audience , not as literature to be read , either then , or , much less , centuries ...
Page 8
... never coloured by the customs of his age ; what appears of contemporary character in him is merely negative ; it is just not something else . " But he was immensely nearer the truth than the scores of scholars who in the last half ...
... never coloured by the customs of his age ; what appears of contemporary character in him is merely negative ; it is just not something else . " But he was immensely nearer the truth than the scores of scholars who in the last half ...
Page 11
... never have sought thee if I had not already found thee " ; " The rest is silence " : what do they mean ? Will any two men ever exactly agree ? Such sentences are poetry . The Vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my Vision's Greatest ...
... never have sought thee if I had not already found thee " ; " The rest is silence " : what do they mean ? Will any two men ever exactly agree ? Such sentences are poetry . The Vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my Vision's Greatest ...
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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