Shakespeare: Invention of the Human: The Invention of the Human"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. |
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Page 64
... Marlowe and Shake- speare , but they must have met frequently , sharing the leadership of the London stage until Marlowe's murder by the government in early 1593 . Marlowe personally may have frightened Shakespeare rather in the way ...
... Marlowe and Shake- speare , but they must have met frequently , sharing the leadership of the London stage until Marlowe's murder by the government in early 1593 . Marlowe personally may have frightened Shakespeare rather in the way ...
Page 77
... Marlowe's still overwhelming influence by at- tempting a parody of Marlowe , and a kind of shock therapy for himself and his public . Something about Titus Andronicus is archaic , in an unpleasant way . Everything and everyone on stage ...
... Marlowe's still overwhelming influence by at- tempting a parody of Marlowe , and a kind of shock therapy for himself and his public . Something about Titus Andronicus is archaic , in an unpleasant way . Everything and everyone on stage ...
Page 173
... Marlowe's ferocious Machiavel are so antithetical to each other that I have always wanted a mischievous director ... Marlowe , contrasts against the cartoon Barabas Shylock's realistic mimesis , which is so overwhelming that it cannot be ...
... Marlowe's ferocious Machiavel are so antithetical to each other that I have always wanted a mischievous director ... Marlowe , contrasts against the cartoon Barabas Shylock's realistic mimesis , which is so overwhelming that it cannot be ...
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
Copyright | |
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