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 121
... Shake- The speare's greatest , and that general consent still prevails . Critics , au- diences , and common readers all prefer A Midsummer Night's Dream , As You Like It , and Twelfth Night among the pure comedies , and The Merchant of ...
... Shake- The speare's greatest , and that general consent still prevails . Critics , au- diences , and common readers all prefer A Midsummer Night's Dream , As You Like It , and Twelfth Night among the pure comedies , and The Merchant of ...
Page 273
... Shake- speare's human investment in Falstaff to the degree that we surmise it in Hamlet is a puzzle to me . A celebrated New Historicist critic of Shake- speare , responding to a talk I gave on value in the personalities of Hamlet and ...
... Shake- speare's human investment in Falstaff to the degree that we surmise it in Hamlet is a puzzle to me . A celebrated New Historicist critic of Shake- speare , responding to a talk I gave on value in the personalities of Hamlet and ...
Page 434
... Shake- speare after Hamlet . Only Othello and Coriolanus exclude all laughter , as if to protect two great captains from the Falstaffian perspective . When Othello , doubtless the fastest sword in his profession , wants to stop a street ...
... Shake- speare after Hamlet . Only Othello and Coriolanus exclude all laughter , as if to protect two great captains from the Falstaffian perspective . When Othello , doubtless the fastest sword in his profession , wants to stop a street ...
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
Copyright | |
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