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 16
... character " and " Hamlet as a role for an actor . " Yet , mostly because of the peculiarities of modern criticism , the time has come around when it seems salutory to speak again of " literary and dramatic character " in order better to ...
... character " and " Hamlet as a role for an actor . " Yet , mostly because of the peculiarities of modern criticism , the time has come around when it seems salutory to speak again of " literary and dramatic character " in order better to ...
Page 52
... character in Shakespeare who fully can charm and arouse us , particularly because no one before in a Shakespearean play is so persuasive a representation of a person . It is not too much to say that the Bastard in King John inaugurates ...
... character in Shakespeare who fully can charm and arouse us , particularly because no one before in a Shakespearean play is so persuasive a representation of a person . It is not too much to say that the Bastard in King John inaugurates ...
Page 432
... character of lago unnatural . Shakspeare , who was quite as good a philosopher as he was a poet , thought otherwise . He knew that the love of power , which is another name for the love of mischief , was natural to man . He would know ...
... character of lago unnatural . Shakspeare , who was quite as good a philosopher as he was a poet , thought otherwise . He knew that the love of power , which is another name for the love of mischief , was natural to man . He would know ...
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
Copyright | |
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