Reclamations of ShakespeareA. J. Hoenselaars |
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... staging available to us . The inadequacy of Shakespeare's stage directions has baffled many generations of scholars and editors . As a player - playwright he was uniquely close to the original performers , a sharer and a 127 ANDREW GURR.
... staging available to us . The inadequacy of Shakespeare's stage directions has baffled many generations of scholars and editors . As a player - playwright he was uniquely close to the original performers , a sharer and a 127 ANDREW GURR.
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... directions that were not in any original text , inserted by editors who have to work by inference from the written script . Anyone mounting a Shakespeare play from the bare indications in the Folio text has to do the same . And readers ...
... directions that were not in any original text , inserted by editors who have to work by inference from the written script . Anyone mounting a Shakespeare play from the bare indications in the Folio text has to do the same . And readers ...
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... directions in the first part of Thomas Heywood's If You Know Not Me and invited comments on which of the two radical alter- natives was the more likely . That was in 1989. A deafening silence has followed . There is no doubt that we ...
... directions in the first part of Thomas Heywood's If You Know Not Me and invited comments on which of the two radical alter- natives was the more likely . That was in 1989. A deafening silence has followed . There is no doubt that we ...
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... directions . My example is from the original staging of that not wholly unstudied text , Hamlet . My ambition is to offer you a reading in it that has never been proposed before . This is an undertaking large enough on its own to prove ...
... directions . My example is from the original staging of that not wholly unstudied text , Hamlet . My ambition is to offer you a reading in it that has never been proposed before . This is an undertaking large enough on its own to prove ...
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... directions . The decorums of behaviour and hat - wearing were habitual . When kings are present , the basic decorum of doffing your hat and kneeling to speak to the king never needs a stage direction . Not to do so in the real Court was ...
... directions . The decorums of behaviour and hat - wearing were habitual . When kings are present , the basic decorum of doffing your hat and kneeling to speak to the king never needs a stage direction . Not to do so in the real Court was ...
Contents
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The Rape of Lucrece and the Story of W | 75 |
Hearsay Soothsay | 105 |
Gender and Genre in Shakespeares Tragicomedies | 129 |
The Poet Laureates National Poet | 159 |
Myth Memory and Music | 173 |
Music as Meaning in The Tempest | 187 |
Another Look at | 201 |
Mapping Shakespeares Europe | 223 |
Every Word in Shakespeare | 273 |
Notes on Contributors | 303 |
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Page 235 - I tell you, captain, — if you look in the maps of the "orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth...
Page 214 - Not to a rage. Patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears Were like, a better way.
Page 74 - His legs bestrid the ocean : his rear'd arm Crested the world : his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There...
Page 103 - If the object becomes allegorical under the gaze of melancholy, if melancholy causes life to flow out of it and it remains behind dead, but eternally secure, then it is exposed to the allegorist, it is unconditionally in his power. That is to say it is now quite incapable of emanating any meaning or significance of its own; such significance as it has, it acquires from the allegorist.
Page 221 - From Paris next, coasting the realm of France, We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine, Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines; Then up to Naples, rich Campania, Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, The streets straight forth, and paved with finest brick; Quarter the town in four equivalents. There saw we learned Maro's...
Page 176 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmixed with baser matter.
Page 206 - If you would have your kennell for sweetnesse of cry, then you must compound it of some large dogges, that have deepe solemne mouthes, and are swift in spending, which must, as it were, beare the base in the consort, then a double number of roaring, and loud ringing mouthes, which must beare the counter tenour, then some hollow, plaine, sweete mouthes, which must beare the meane or middle part ; and soe with these three parts of musicke you shall make your cry perfect.
Page 50 - The poet never maketh any circles about your imagination, to conjure you to believe for true what he writes.
References to this book
Shakespeare, Reception and Translation: Germany and Japan Friedrike Von Schwerin-High No preview available - 2004 |