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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... soul , and so the soul of everyone , in a work of art , is the man who reads into it his own prejudices and opinions , makes it a point of departure for some sheer invention , or uses it to grind his own axe — all of them fatally ...
... soul , and so the soul of everyone , in a work of art , is the man who reads into it his own prejudices and opinions , makes it a point of departure for some sheer invention , or uses it to grind his own axe — all of them fatally ...
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... soul , as a looking glass does his face . There hangs the mirror on the wall , a definite object , the same for all . Yet whoever looks into it sees not the mirror but himself . We all live in the same world , but what different worlds ...
... soul , as a looking glass does his face . There hangs the mirror on the wall , a definite object , the same for all . Yet whoever looks into it sees not the mirror but himself . We all live in the same world , but what different worlds ...
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... soul . " " The color of the object illuminated , " says Leonardo da Vinci , " partakes of the color of what illuminates it . " In the end , whatever its pretensions , any new book about Shakespeare can be no more than just one other ...
... soul . " " The color of the object illuminated , " says Leonardo da Vinci , " partakes of the color of what illuminates it . " In the end , whatever its pretensions , any new book about Shakespeare can be no more than just one other ...
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... soul of state , Which hath an operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to . Who can doubt that in just this condition of complete mental tranquillity ( this " soul of state " ) Shakespeare had himself often gazed ...
... soul of state , Which hath an operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to . Who can doubt that in just this condition of complete mental tranquillity ( this " soul of state " ) Shakespeare had himself often gazed ...
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Contents
1 | |
15 | |
25 | |
28 | |
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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