Reclamations of Shakespeare

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A. J. Hoenselaars
Rodopi, 1994 - Drama - 317 pages

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Contents

Introduction
7
Elizabethan Drama and AngloDutch Relations 21
21
Shakespeare and the Myth of Hercules
57
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 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...
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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.
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Page 50 - The poet never maketh any circles about your imagination, to conjure you to believe for true what he writes.