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We would not be reading Shakespeare , or putting him on the stage , if his plays did not move us and come home to us , not just in an insight here and there , but in their vitality as artistic wholes , in which story , character ...
We would not be reading Shakespeare , or putting him on the stage , if his plays did not move us and come home to us , not just in an insight here and there , but in their vitality as artistic wholes , in which story , character ...
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What the love poetry does , in the play as Shakespeare wrote it , we may appreciate better if we think of the Zeffirelli motionpicture version of Romeo and Juliet , in which a great deal is cut out of the speeches in favor of much ...
What the love poetry does , in the play as Shakespeare wrote it , we may appreciate better if we think of the Zeffirelli motionpicture version of Romeo and Juliet , in which a great deal is cut out of the speeches in favor of much ...
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Shakespeare in no way lessens the physical side of the love by not fully displaying it ; he only respects the intimacy of both the desire and the grief . The poignancy is all the greater for the restraint .
Shakespeare in no way lessens the physical side of the love by not fully displaying it ; he only respects the intimacy of both the desire and the grief . The poignancy is all the greater for the restraint .
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Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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