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... Lady' is not a real human being.” He added that “Simple, or elaborate, praise of physical beauty is always charming, but when it comes to writing about the emotional relation between the sexes, whether in verse or prose, I prefer the ...
... Lady Grey, a widow—and here it's a demonstration of lust, not weakness. Warwick switches sides, surprises Edward, and removes his crown. Richard contrives Edward's escape. Clarence goes over to Warwick. Edward surprises Henry. At the ...
... lady's lap And deck my body in gay ornaments And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks. O miserable thought! And more unlikely Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns! Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb; And, for I should ...
... Lady, who should have been choring, such suburban ambition, so messily goring old Duncan with daggers! How boring, how small Shakespeare's people are! Yet the language so lovely! like the dyes from gas-tar. Lawrence's view of ...
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Contents
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The Comedy of Errors and The Two Gentlemen of Verona 23 | 23 |
Loves Labours Lost | 33 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 53 |
The Taming of the Shrew King John and Richard II | 63 |
Henry IV Parts One and Two and Henry V | 101 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | 124 |
Alls Well That Ends Well | 181 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 231 |
Timon of Athens | 255 |
Pericles and Cymbeline | 270 |
Concluding Lecture | 308 |
APPENDIX I | 321 |
Fall Term Final Examination | 341 |
Audens Markings in Kittredge | 347 |