The Adventures of a Shakespeare Scholar: To Discover Shakespeare's Art, Volume 10Rarely does a scholar single-handedly point Shakespeare study in a new direction. But in the 1950s, when brilliant insights were being achieved in Shakespeare's language, and a few theatre historians were recording stagings and stage business, Marvin Rosenberg led the way to a wider perspective of the poet-playwright's genius. He insisted that Shakespeare's art fused poetry-of-the-word with poetry-of-the-theatre, each illuminating the other inseparably. |
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... impulses and ideas ( Stanislavsky : " objectives " ) truly move them to their destinies . Clearly character was the mainspring of Shake- speare's actions . But I found , as so many have before me , that the characterizations , so ...
... impulses and ideas ( Stanislavsky : " objectives " ) truly move them to their destinies . Clearly character was the mainspring of Shake- speare's actions . But I found , as so many have before me , that the characterizations , so ...
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... impulses , and traits ? I propose a metaphor : polyphony . A tragic character's composition has many tones — or say voices : some harmonious , some dissonant , some nuclear , some peripheral grace notes . We perceive the combinations of ...
... impulses , and traits ? I propose a metaphor : polyphony . A tragic character's composition has many tones — or say voices : some harmonious , some dissonant , some nuclear , some peripheral grace notes . We perceive the combinations of ...
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... impulses in his first scene , as he asks his daughters to compete in loving him , quickly gives way , when his youngest disappoints him , to a rising , latent dissonance of dismay and then a thunder drum of anger — and underneath all ...
... impulses in his first scene , as he asks his daughters to compete in loving him , quickly gives way , when his youngest disappoints him , to a rising , latent dissonance of dismay and then a thunder drum of anger — and underneath all ...
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... impulses have occasion to fuse in murderous aggression , terrible inward and outer pressures scrape and hammer at their identities . In tragic characters , the deepest , most urgent tones , in life usually suppressed , are made to sound ...
... impulses have occasion to fuse in murderous aggression , terrible inward and outer pressures scrape and hammer at their identities . In tragic characters , the deepest , most urgent tones , in life usually suppressed , are made to sound ...
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... widely diverse , often conflicting , even contradictory , quali- ties . My metaphor for our complex mix of such thoughts , emotions , and impulses is polyphony . As we go through the day 38 CHARACTER AS MAINSPRING IN SHAKESPEARE.
... widely diverse , often conflicting , even contradictory , quali- ties . My metaphor for our complex mix of such thoughts , emotions , and impulses is polyphony . As we go through the day 38 CHARACTER AS MAINSPRING IN SHAKESPEARE.
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Page 108 - O, reason not the need ! our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap, as beast's : thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.
Page 106 - Hear, nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear ! — Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen ; that it may live, And be a thwart disnatured torment to her...
Page 110 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these...
Page 125 - Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. Lady M. Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since, And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou...
Page 98 - From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty ; As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint; our natures do pursue (Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,) A thirsty evil ; and when we drinK, we die.
Page 290 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 209 - Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter; Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty; Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare...