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 175
... play's vitality can be attributed to the ways in which it scrapes against a bedrock of beliefs about the racial ... play reveals about the rela- tionship between cultural myths and peoples ' identities will not make irrational and ...
... play's vitality can be attributed to the ways in which it scrapes against a bedrock of beliefs about the racial ... play reveals about the rela- tionship between cultural myths and peoples ' identities will not make irrational and ...
Page 479
... play - just as he is hated and feared by Goneril , Regan , Cornwall , and Oswald , the play's lesser villains . The play's great villain , the superb and uncanny Edmund , is ice - cold , indifferent to Lear as he is even to his own ...
... play - just as he is hated and feared by Goneril , Regan , Cornwall , and Oswald , the play's lesser villains . The play's great villain , the superb and uncanny Edmund , is ice - cold , indifferent to Lear as he is even to his own ...
Page 743
... play's the thing " in every possible sense . Of all Shakespeare's works , this is the play of plays because it is the play of the play . No theory of the drama takes us further than the sequence from Act II , Scene ii , through Act III ...
... play's the thing " in every possible sense . Of all Shakespeare's works , this is the play of plays because it is the play of the play . No theory of the drama takes us further than the sequence from Act II , Scene ii , through Act III ...
Contents
Shakespeares Universalism | 1 |
The Comedy of Errors | 21 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 28 |
Copyright | |
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