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 305
... true and perfect image of life , " immortal spirit worth a thousand Hals . Here is the truest glory of Shakespeare's invention of the human : Embowelled ? If thou embowel me today , I'll give you leave to pow- der me and eat me too ...
... true and perfect image of life , " immortal spirit worth a thousand Hals . Here is the truest glory of Shakespeare's invention of the human : Embowelled ? If thou embowel me today , I'll give you leave to pow- der me and eat me too ...
Page 335
... True swains in love shall , in the world to come , Approve their truth by Troilus ; when their rhymes , Full of protest , of oath , and big compare , Wants similes , truth tir'd with iteration ( As true as steel , as plantage to the ...
... True swains in love shall , in the world to come , Approve their truth by Troilus ; when their rhymes , Full of protest , of oath , and big compare , Wants similes , truth tir'd with iteration ( As true as steel , as plantage to the ...
Page 426
... true to Hamlet , or to Falstaff ? At its worst , sometimes , and at its best , sometimes , life can or may be , so that the real question becomes , Is Wittgenstein true to Hamlet , or Bloom to Falstaff ? I grant that you don't need to ...
... true to Hamlet , or to Falstaff ? At its worst , sometimes , and at its best , sometimes , life can or may be , so that the real question becomes , Is Wittgenstein true to Hamlet , or Bloom to Falstaff ? I grant that you don't need to ...
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
Copyright | |
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