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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... stories as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb , to the old man turning to his works for forti- tude and vision , every age finds in them what it needs . Every new lover of them finds himself , as every generation , from the poet's to our ...
... stories as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb , to the old man turning to his works for forti- tude and vision , every age finds in them what it needs . Every new lover of them finds himself , as every generation , from the poet's to our ...
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... story and its hero . The younger re - creates it imaginatively , striking life into it by revealing his individual reaction to it . Anyone understands the impulse to act out a story . It may be observed in any alert child . It is ...
... story and its hero . The younger re - creates it imaginatively , striking life into it by revealing his individual reaction to it . Anyone understands the impulse to act out a story . It may be observed in any alert child . It is ...
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... story come to life like linking it with the experience of the moment . We all remember some familiar tale , some ... stories and went on living as before . But a remnant shall be saved . Granted the extravagance of these examples , they ...
... story come to life like linking it with the experience of the moment . We all remember some familiar tale , some ... stories and went on living as before . But a remnant shall be saved . Granted the extravagance of these examples , they ...
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... stories that I like even better . I like to have you strike life into my speech by lighting it up with your own experience , as Cadwal did the speech of Belarius . Yes , I love to have my stories taken as dramas , but I love still more ...
... stories that I like even better . I like to have you strike life into my speech by lighting it up with your own experience , as Cadwal did the speech of Belarius . Yes , I love to have my stories taken as dramas , but I love still more ...
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... story . Indeed , no acting is even tolerable when this does not take place . But there is rare acting that goes beyond that . " It was something above nature , " says Hazlitt of Mrs. Siddons ' Lady Macbeth . " It seemed almost as if a ...
... story . Indeed , no acting is even tolerable when this does not take place . But there is rare acting that goes beyond that . " It was something above nature , " says Hazlitt of Mrs. Siddons ' Lady Macbeth . " It seemed almost as if a ...
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