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 482
... madness . Madness and blindness become a doublet profoundly akin to tragedy and love , the doublet that binds together the entire play . Madness , blindness , love , and tragedy amal- gamate in a giant bewilderment . " But what if ...
... madness . Madness and blindness become a doublet profoundly akin to tragedy and love , the doublet that binds together the entire play . Madness , blindness , love , and tragedy amal- gamate in a giant bewilderment . " But what if ...
Page 495
... madness , so as to punish the King for his great folly . Shakespeare uses the Fool in many ways , and one of them clearly involves Erasmus's preference for folly over knowing . Blake may have been thinking of Lear's Fool in the Proverb ...
... madness , so as to punish the King for his great folly . Shakespeare uses the Fool in many ways , and one of them clearly involves Erasmus's preference for folly over knowing . Blake may have been thinking of Lear's Fool in the Proverb ...
Page 529
... madness of Lady Macbeth exceeds a trauma merely of guilt ; her husband consistently turns from her ( though never against her ) once Dun- can is slain . Whatever the two had intended by the mutual " greatness " they had promised each ...
... madness of Lady Macbeth exceeds a trauma merely of guilt ; her husband consistently turns from her ( though never against her ) once Dun- can is slain . Whatever the two had intended by the mutual " greatness " they had promised each ...
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
Copyright | |
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