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 333
... Troilus is to love what Hec- tor is to war , Ulysses to statecraft , Achilles to agonistic supremacy : they are all impostors , bad actors . For brainlessness , Agamemnon , Nestor , and Ajax are all nicely matched , while Cressida is as ...
... Troilus is to love what Hec- tor is to war , Ulysses to statecraft , Achilles to agonistic supremacy : they are all impostors , bad actors . For brainlessness , Agamemnon , Nestor , and Ajax are all nicely matched , while Cressida is as ...
Page 337
... Troilus as the speaker of this mordant observation . " Will " here also means " lust , " and to the playwright had to be self- referential , as when he puns upon his name " Will " in the Sonnets . Troilus hardly seems to us an adequate ...
... Troilus as the speaker of this mordant observation . " Will " here also means " lust , " and to the playwright had to be self- referential , as when he puns upon his name " Will " in the Sonnets . Troilus hardly seems to us an adequate ...
Page 338
... Troilus's negation of what is before him anticipates Hegelian negation , with its denial of the tyranny of fact . Troilus's dialectical Idealism is rather more drastic : " This is , and is not , Cressid . " Psychological rather than ...
... Troilus's negation of what is before him anticipates Hegelian negation , with its denial of the tyranny of fact . Troilus's dialectical Idealism is rather more drastic : " This is , and is not , Cressid . " Psychological rather than ...
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
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