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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... once made clear when he exclaimed : " Now for my life , it is a miracle of thirty years , which to relate were not a History , but a piece of Poetry , and would sound to common ears like a Fable . " If we may judge by his works ...
... once made clear when he exclaimed : " Now for my life , it is a miracle of thirty years , which to relate were not a History , but a piece of Poetry , and would sound to common ears like a Fable . " If we may judge by his works ...
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... once Arviragus , the more imaginative . They listen in character . says Belarius of the older boy , Jove ! When on my three - foot stool I sit and tell The war - like feats I have done , his spirits fly out Into my story : say , " Thus ...
... once Arviragus , the more imaginative . They listen in character . says Belarius of the older boy , Jove ! When on my three - foot stool I sit and tell The war - like feats I have done , his spirits fly out Into my story : say , " Thus ...
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... once preached a sermon to the tailors of Dublin on the text , " A remnant shall be saved . " Swift knew , as this incident proves , that the function of a bible is to rebuke and inspire the present , not just to record the past . It is ...
... once preached a sermon to the tailors of Dublin on the text , " A remnant shall be saved . " Swift knew , as this incident proves , that the function of a bible is to rebuke and inspire the present , not just to record the past . It is ...
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... once , the medium of communion between the two — as if the birds , unable to understand the speech of man , and man , unable to under- stand the songs of birds , yet longing to communicate , were to agree on a tongue made up of sounds ...
... once , the medium of communion between the two — as if the birds , unable to understand the speech of man , and man , unable to under- stand the songs of birds , yet longing to communicate , were to agree on a tongue made up of sounds ...
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... once at least in every generation . His plays are full of this theme . No one , for instance , can forget Hamlet's contempt for the fashionable Osric who had caught so perfectly " the tune of the time . " And in the 123d sonnet the poet ...
... once at least in every generation . His plays are full of this theme . No one , for instance , can forget Hamlet's contempt for the fashionable Osric who had caught so perfectly " the tune of the time . " And in the 123d sonnet the poet ...
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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