Reclamations of ShakespeareA. J. Hoenselaars |
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... kind , and these are especially prone to generate myth and mystery . This kind of myth - making occurred with the transfer of Shakespeare from the stage to the silver screen during the early years of the twentieth century , a move that ...
... kind , and these are especially prone to generate myth and mystery . This kind of myth - making occurred with the transfer of Shakespeare from the stage to the silver screen during the early years of the twentieth century , a move that ...
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... are mine alone . I am also grateful to the kind and helpful staff of the Humanities Computer Centre ( CCL ) of the University of Amsterdam . Utrecht , June 1994 SHAKESPEARE AND THE VISUAL SIGNIFIER Andrew Gurr Print is nearly INTRODUCTION.
... are mine alone . I am also grateful to the kind and helpful staff of the Humanities Computer Centre ( CCL ) of the University of Amsterdam . Utrecht , June 1994 SHAKESPEARE AND THE VISUAL SIGNIFIER Andrew Gurr Print is nearly INTRODUCTION.
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... kind of reading . That raises the question of whose authority you can appeal to in order to back that reading , and of course the chronic theoretical issue of whether we should " prioritize " the original author ( ity ) over the modern ...
... kind of reading . That raises the question of whose authority you can appeal to in order to back that reading , and of course the chronic theoretical issue of whether we should " prioritize " the original author ( ity ) over the modern ...
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... kind of labour . That freakish and unique seventy - five years from 1567 to 1642 , when the first of London's nine open - air amphitheatres began to cater for more customers than the roofed hall theatres did . and when Shakespeare wrote ...
... kind of labour . That freakish and unique seventy - five years from 1567 to 1642 , when the first of London's nine open - air amphitheatres began to cater for more customers than the roofed hall theatres did . and when Shakespeare wrote ...
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... kind of routine knowledge that we would not expect to find even in Heywood's or Jonson's textual stage directions . The decorums of behaviour and hat - wearing were habitual . When kings are present , the basic decorum of doffing your ...
... kind of routine knowledge that we would not expect to find even in Heywood's or Jonson's textual stage directions . The decorums of behaviour and hat - wearing were habitual . When kings are present , the basic decorum of doffing your ...
Contents
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57 | |
The Rape of Lucrece and the Story of W | 75 |
Hearsay Soothsay | 105 |
Gender and Genre in Shakespeares Tragicomedies | 129 |
The Poet Laureates National Poet | 159 |
Myth Memory and Music | 173 |
Music as Meaning in The Tempest | 187 |
Another Look at | 201 |
Mapping Shakespeares Europe | 223 |
Every Word in Shakespeare | 273 |
Notes on Contributors | 303 |
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Page 235 - I tell you, captain, — if you look in the maps of the "orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth...
Page 214 - Not to a rage. Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears Were like, a better way.
Page 74 - His legs bestrid the ocean : his rear'd arm Crested the world : his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There...
Page 103 - If the object becomes allegorical under the gaze of melancholy, if melancholy causes life to flow out of it and it remains behind dead, but eternally secure, then it is exposed to the allegorist, it is unconditionally in his power. That is to say it is now quite incapable of emanating any meaning or significance of its own; such significance as it has, it acquires from the allegorist.
Page 221 - From Paris next, coasting the realm of France, We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine, Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines; Then up to Naples, rich Campania, Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, The streets straight forth, and paved with finest brick; Quarter the town in four equivalents. There saw we learned Maro's...
Page 176 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmixed with baser matter.
Page 206 - If you would have your kennell for sweetnesse of cry, then you must compound it of some large dogges, that have deepe solemne mouthes, and are swift in spending, which must, as it were, beare the base in the consort, then a double number of roaring, and loud ringing mouthes, which must beare the counter tenour, then some hollow, plaine, sweete mouthes, which must beare the meane or middle part ; and soe with these three parts of musicke you shall make your cry perfect.
Page 50 - The poet never maketh any circles about your imagination, to conjure you to believe for true what he writes.
References to this book
Shakespeare, Reception and Translation: Germany and Japan Friedrike Von Schwerin-High No preview available - 2004 |