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 368
... Death's fool ; For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun , And yet run'st toward him still . Thou art not noble ; For all th'accommodations that thou bear'st Are nurs'd by baseness . Thou'rt by no means valiant ; For thou dost fear ...
... Death's fool ; For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun , And yet run'st toward him still . Thou art not noble ; For all th'accommodations that thou bear'st Are nurs'd by baseness . Thou'rt by no means valiant ; For thou dost fear ...
Page 504
... death wound . Edmund is quite dispassionate about his own dying , but he is not doom - eager , unlike Goneril and Regan , both of whom seem to have been in love with him precisely because they sought a death wound . Nowhere else , even ...
... death wound . Edmund is quite dispassionate about his own dying , but he is not doom - eager , unlike Goneril and Regan , both of whom seem to have been in love with him precisely because they sought a death wound . Nowhere else , even ...
Page 558
... death , the age of Julius Caesar and of Pompey is over , an age that began with the death of Alexander the Great . For Shakespeare , it is the Herculean or heroic age , and , as I have remarked , Antony - in the play- is already archaic ...
... death , the age of Julius Caesar and of Pompey is over , an age that began with the death of Alexander the Great . For Shakespeare , it is the Herculean or heroic age , and , as I have remarked , Antony - in the play- is already archaic ...
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
Copyright | |
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