The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1, Volume 1In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius. |
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... first so to consider him . Books by the shelf - full have been written on Shakespeare since the publication of An Essay on the Dramatic Charac- ter of Sir John Falstaff . Many of them are crowded with specific references and quotations ...
... first so to consider him . Books by the shelf - full have been written on Shakespeare since the publication of An Essay on the Dramatic Charac- ter of Sir John Falstaff . Many of them are crowded with specific references and quotations ...
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... first what Shakespeare really wrote , " say the textual critics . " Let us discover how men actually lived and thought in his day , " say the historical critics . " Let us never forget that he was a playwright , " say the theatrical ...
... first what Shakespeare really wrote , " say the textual critics . " Let us discover how men actually lived and thought in his day , " say the historical critics . " Let us never forget that he was a playwright , " say the theatrical ...
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... first what Shakespeare really wrote sounds eminently sensi- ble . But it is not as objective an inquiry as it seems . Even in determining the text , love is as necessary as learning , for only he who recognizes Shake- speare's voice and ...
... first what Shakespeare really wrote sounds eminently sensi- ble . But it is not as objective an inquiry as it seems . Even in determining the text , love is as necessary as learning , for only he who recognizes Shake- speare's voice and ...
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... first , that Shakespeare's life had the organic character of a work of art ; and , second , that his works are less ends in themselves than a by - product of his living and hence a kind of unconscious record of his life . If so , they ...
... first , that Shakespeare's life had the organic character of a work of art ; and , second , that his works are less ends in themselves than a by - product of his living and hence a kind of unconscious record of his life . If so , they ...
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... first composition in that form . " Now I should think , " she continued with a slight note of dis- dain in her voice , " that you'd write the essay first and then find the outline . " The teacher might have personified Intellect , the ...
... first composition in that form . " Now I should think , " she continued with a slight note of dis- dain in her voice , " that you'd write the essay first and then find the outline . " The teacher might have personified Intellect , the ...
Contents
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V Titus Andronicus | 33 |
VI Richard III | 35 |
VII The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 41 |
VIII Loves Labours Lost | 48 |
XIV King John | 140 |
XV Richard II | 148 |
XVI Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part II The Merry Wives of Windsor | 161 |
XVII Henry V | 215 |
XVIII Henry VIII | 269 |
XIX Much Ado about Nothing | 271 |
XX As You Like It | 281 |
XXI Twelfth Night | 294 |
IX The PoetPlaywright | 55 |
X The Taming of the Shrew | 68 |
XI A MidsummerNights Dream | 74 |
XII The Merchant of Venice | 81 |
XIII Romeo and Juliet | 117 |
XXII Julius Caesar | 307 |
XXIII Hamlet | 331 |
Index | 387 |
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