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 65
... Richard III as another parody of Barabas , Jew of Malta , like Aaron the Moor , and so as another step toward the brilliant portrait of the then long - dead Marlowe as Edmund in King Lear . Marlowe personally may have been fiercely ...
... Richard III as another parody of Barabas , Jew of Malta , like Aaron the Moor , and so as another step toward the brilliant portrait of the then long - dead Marlowe as Edmund in King Lear . Marlowe personally may have been fiercely ...
Page 250
... Richard II as chronicle rather than tragedy , and of Richard himself neither as hero nor as villain but as victim , primarily of his own self - indulgence , yet also of the power of his imagination . There is no prose whatsoever in ...
... Richard II as chronicle rather than tragedy , and of Richard himself neither as hero nor as villain but as victim , primarily of his own self - indulgence , yet also of the power of his imagination . There is no prose whatsoever in ...
Page 252
... Richard II seeks to distance us from pathos as far as possible . We wonder at Richard , we admire his language , but we never suf- fer with him , even when he is deposed and subsequently murdered . Of all the histories , this is the ...
... Richard II seeks to distance us from pathos as far as possible . We wonder at Richard , we admire his language , but we never suf- fer with him , even when he is deposed and subsequently murdered . Of all the histories , this is the ...
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
Copyright | |
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