Shakespeare: Invention of the Human: The Invention of the Human"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. |
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Page 692
... Noble Kinsmen . Through his uncanniness , Shakespeare knew the end of his era , whatever we now choose to call that time . Henry VIII is an elegy for Shakespeare's world - altering achievement in poetic drama , and consciously bids ...
... Noble Kinsmen . Through his uncanniness , Shakespeare knew the end of his era , whatever we now choose to call that time . Henry VIII is an elegy for Shakespeare's world - altering achievement in poetic drama , and consciously bids ...
Page 694
... Noble Kinsmen ( 1613 ) constitute the final writing of any sort by the author of Hamlet and King Lear . I have never seen a performance of The Two Noble Kins- men , and don't particularly want to , since Shakespeare's contributions to ...
... Noble Kinsmen ( 1613 ) constitute the final writing of any sort by the author of Hamlet and King Lear . I have never seen a performance of The Two Noble Kins- men , and don't particularly want to , since Shakespeare's contributions to ...
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... Noble Kinsmen and the Fu- neral Elegy for Will Peter , Shakespeare himself was well enough battered to be glad to be out of it all , but simply to urge " true love's merit " upon us does not seem suitable for the ambivalent husband of ...
... Noble Kinsmen and the Fu- neral Elegy for Will Peter , Shakespeare himself was well enough battered to be glad to be out of it all , but simply to urge " true love's merit " upon us does not seem suitable for the ambivalent husband of ...
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
Copyright | |
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