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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... live among , both of them intelligent , both brimming with vitality . But Shakespeare dis- tinguishes them sharply . The elder , Polydore , formerly Guiderius , is the more objective and active in temperament ; the younger , Cadwal ...
... live among , both of them intelligent , both brimming with vitality . But Shakespeare dis- tinguishes them sharply . The elder , Polydore , formerly Guiderius , is the more objective and active in temperament ; the younger , Cadwal ...
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... live in the same world , but what different worlds we see in it and make out of it : Caesar's , Jesus ' , Machiavelli's , Mozart's — yours and mine . The oracle remains the type of the purest poetry . Oracles are ambiguous ( a very ...
... live in the same world , but what different worlds we see in it and make out of it : Caesar's , Jesus ' , Machiavelli's , Mozart's — yours and mine . The oracle remains the type of the purest poetry . Oracles are ambiguous ( a very ...
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... live — at our risk . Though it may take its time about it , the world has a way of bringing up with a sharp jolt the man who attempts to substitute for its facts some private fancy . Fanciful interpretations of literature are doomed to ...
... live — at our risk . Though it may take its time about it , the world has a way of bringing up with a sharp jolt the man who attempts to substitute for its facts some private fancy . Fanciful interpretations of literature are doomed to ...
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... everything , and if this is the last and final judgment on this world we live in , then it is a miraculous world . This is a miracle play . " Chapter II The Integrity of Shakespeare I " Shakespeare led { 14 } - THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE.
... everything , and if this is the last and final judgment on this world we live in , then it is a miraculous world . This is a miracle play . " Chapter II The Integrity of Shakespeare I " Shakespeare led { 14 } - THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE.
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... lives , Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd ; The which observ'd , a man may prophesy , With a near aim , of the main chance of things As yet not come to life , which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured . Such ...
... lives , Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd ; The which observ'd , a man may prophesy , With a near aim , of the main chance of things As yet not come to life , which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured . Such ...
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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Antonio Bassanio battle beginning blood Brutus called Capulet casket Cassius character Comedy Comedy of Errors comes cries critics crown dead death devil disguise doth dramatic Duke eyes fact Falstaff father fear fool genius Gentlemen of Verona Ghost give Hamlet hath heart heaven Henry Henry IV Henry VI Henry's hero honor Hotspur imagination Julius Caesar Justice kill King Lear King's Laertes lines lord lover Merchant of Venice Mercutio mercy metaphor Midsummer-Night's Dream mind moral mother murder nature never night peace play poet poetry Polonius Portia Prince revenge Richard Richard II Romeo and Juliet Rosalind says scene seems sense Shake Shakespeare Shylock soul speak speech spirit story sweet symbol tell theater theatrical thee theme things thou thought throne Touchstone tragedy true truth turns Twelfth Night Tybalt unconscious utter words youth