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 24
... wonder you do hit of mine ; Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not Than our earth's wonder , more than earth divine . Teach me , dear creature , how to think and speak ; Lay open to my earthy gross conceit , Smother'd in ...
... wonder you do hit of mine ; Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not Than our earth's wonder , more than earth divine . Teach me , dear creature , how to think and speak ; Lay open to my earthy gross conceit , Smother'd in ...
Page 164
... wonder crowds wonder and eloquence over- flows , as Shakespeare manifests his creative exuberance without pause . The orgiastic reading is prophetically dismissed by the first scene , where Titania sits the amiable Bottom down upon a ...
... wonder crowds wonder and eloquence over- flows , as Shakespeare manifests his creative exuberance without pause . The orgiastic reading is prophetically dismissed by the first scene , where Titania sits the amiable Bottom down upon a ...
Page 483
... Albany and Goneril would have been more than enough to exhaust a stronger character than Albany , and Kent is only just barely a survivor . Edgar is the center , and we can wonder why we are so slow to see that 483 KING LEAR.
... Albany and Goneril would have been more than enough to exhaust a stronger character than Albany , and Kent is only just barely a survivor . Edgar is the center , and we can wonder why we are so slow to see that 483 KING LEAR.
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
Copyright | |
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