The Loves of Shakespeare's WomenHere are the famous speeches from Juliet--"Come, night! Come, Romeo!"--and from Portia--"The quality of mercy..."--but also less familiar ones from Viola, Hermia, Isabella and Cressida. These younger characters make up the first half of the book, while the second half is devoted to maturer women like Lady Macbeth--"How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me"--Gertrude, Mistress Quickly, Cleopatra and Queen Katherine. |
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Page 13
... huge headaches , too . This plethora of marvellous women ! I wanted to do them all . But of course there'd be restrictions of time , of my own ability to hold all these women , of an audience's will to digest them . Inevitably I would ...
... huge headaches , too . This plethora of marvellous women ! I wanted to do them all . But of course there'd be restrictions of time , of my own ability to hold all these women , of an audience's will to digest them . Inevitably I would ...
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... huge oak - floored room with a magnificent Victorian fireplace ; it seats sixty . Katalin allowed us to light the ' stage ' with huge candelabra , 16.
... huge oak - floored room with a magnificent Victorian fireplace ; it seats sixty . Katalin allowed us to light the ' stage ' with huge candelabra , 16.
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Susannah York, William Shakespeare. to light the ' stage ' with huge candelabra , throw a mock - medieval tapestry over the fireplace . I didn't trust myself to know my ' links ' , so rewritten they had been as I struggled for concision ...
Susannah York, William Shakespeare. to light the ' stage ' with huge candelabra , throw a mock - medieval tapestry over the fireplace . I didn't trust myself to know my ' links ' , so rewritten they had been as I struggled for concision ...
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... continue alone on - stage or set off for my magnificent ' digs ' across the way , the Astoria , to work in the huge , beautiful , sun - filled room with its balcony reaching out towards leaves turned orange , trees beginning 20.
... continue alone on - stage or set off for my magnificent ' digs ' across the way , the Astoria , to work in the huge , beautiful , sun - filled room with its balcony reaching out towards leaves turned orange , trees beginning 20.
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... huge , delicious Georgian dinner in a restaurant that might once have been an old railway waiting room . Again came that marvellous welcome , that infectious joy at our being there . But my sense of doom was deepening : almost nobody ...
... huge , delicious Georgian dinner in a restaurant that might once have been an old railway waiting room . Again came that marvellous welcome , that infectious joy at our being there . But my sense of doom was deepening : almost nobody ...
Contents
II | 29 |
V | 33 |
VI | 35 |
VIII | 38 |
X | 40 |
XII | 48 |
XIII | 51 |
XV | 52 |
XXI | 61 |
XXII | 65 |
XXIII | 66 |
XXIV | 68 |
XXV | 70 |
XXVI | 72 |
XXVIII | 75 |
XXX | 78 |
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