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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... Perhaps I could develop new ways to penetrate the mystery of his genius . That mission has led me to many places in the world , and to many friendships — in scholarship and theater — in almost every country where Shakespeare is read and ...
... Perhaps I could develop new ways to penetrate the mystery of his genius . That mission has led me to many places in the world , and to many friendships — in scholarship and theater — in almost every country where Shakespeare is read and ...
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... perhaps best appreciated if the whole drama is pictured in the imagination as if a narrative mural , or tapestry . Then we can see how deliberate can be the recurrent visual images and motifs ( see Chapter 18 , " Shakespeare's Visual ...
... perhaps best appreciated if the whole drama is pictured in the imagination as if a narrative mural , or tapestry . Then we can see how deliberate can be the recurrent visual images and motifs ( see Chapter 18 , " Shakespeare's Visual ...
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... Perhaps he comes closest after the two encounter Lear— " side piercing sight " —when , now , speaking without dialect , Edgar approves of Gloster's promise to the gods to be patient . Edgar may even have reached a point of ...
... Perhaps he comes closest after the two encounter Lear— " side piercing sight " —when , now , speaking without dialect , Edgar approves of Gloster's promise to the gods to be patient . Edgar may even have reached a point of ...
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... perhaps they do with us ? ) when a watcher in Henry the Eighth describes Wolsey's solitary agony : Some strange commotion Is in his brain ; he bites his lip and starts ; Stops on a sudden , looks upon the ground . Then lays his finger ...
... perhaps they do with us ? ) when a watcher in Henry the Eighth describes Wolsey's solitary agony : Some strange commotion Is in his brain ; he bites his lip and starts ; Stops on a sudden , looks upon the ground . Then lays his finger ...
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