Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and ContextRonald L. Dotterer Seventeen critics are represented in this collection of essays designed to illustrate the vitality and range of traditional and new approaches to Shakespeare studies. |
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... say about Bott . According to his son - in - law , John Harper , Bott was " a man clearly void of all honesty , fidelity , or fear of God , and openly detected of divers great and notorious crimes , as , namely , felony , adultery ...
... say about Bott . According to his son - in - law , John Harper , Bott was " a man clearly void of all honesty , fidelity , or fear of God , and openly detected of divers great and notorious crimes , as , namely , felony , adultery ...
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... says of Shakespeare . The embers of an old debate have lately been once again stirred over Shakespeare's name for his fat knight in I Henry IV . Originally , his creator had dubbed him not Falstaff but Oldcastle . The historical Sir ...
... says of Shakespeare . The embers of an old debate have lately been once again stirred over Shakespeare's name for his fat knight in I Henry IV . Originally , his creator had dubbed him not Falstaff but Oldcastle . The historical Sir ...
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... says not it but them . ) I'd like to track Alexander Jackson down ; maybe one day I will . Who was the Scottish gentleman Hunt refers to ? I don't yet have the answers to these questions . There is nothing inherently improbable about ...
... says not it but them . ) I'd like to track Alexander Jackson down ; maybe one day I will . Who was the Scottish gentleman Hunt refers to ? I don't yet have the answers to these questions . There is nothing inherently improbable about ...
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... says admiringly . " You can bargain . " Mostly , however , in this play about his life , Shakespeare sits in his garden and broods . His wife , we hear , keeps to her bed and hides from him . " She doesn't know who she is , or what ...
... says admiringly . " You can bargain . " Mostly , however , in this play about his life , Shakespeare sits in his garden and broods . His wife , we hear , keeps to her bed and hides from him . " She doesn't know who she is , or what ...
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... says : The latter part of his life was spent , as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be , in ease , retirement , and the conversation of his friends . He had the good fortune to gather an estate equal to his occasion , and , in ...
... says : The latter part of his life was spent , as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be , in ease , retirement , and the conversation of his friends . He had the good fortune to gather an estate equal to his occasion , and , in ...
Contents
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Eavesdropping and Stage Groupings in Twelfth Night and Troilus and Cressida | 42 |
The Recovery of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Playhouses | 56 |
Shakespeares Tragic Homeopathy | 77 |
Shakespeares Dramaturgical Foresight in King Lear | 85 |
Macbeth and Its Audience | 91 |
The Critical Reception of Shakespeares Tragedies in TwentiethCentury Germany | 97 |
Remembering Patriarchy in As You Like It | 139 |
Timons Servant Takes a Wife | 150 |
Pucks Headless BearRevisited | 157 |
make ropes in such a scarre | 163 |
The Poetics of Shakespeares Henry VI Trilogy | 186 |
Of Birds and Words in 1 Henry IV | 201 |
A Contemporary Playwright Looks at Shakespeares Plays | 207 |
List of Contributors | 224 |
Hamlet Romantic SelfConsciousness and the Roots of Modern Tragedy | 107 |
The Status of Women in Othello | 124 |
Index | 227 |
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Page 34 - And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply Passion as they...
Page 79 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Page 210 - Yes, trust them not ! for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his " Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 193 - Content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 24 - The. latter part of his life was spent, as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends.
Page 20 - Stage-poets have themselves been very bold with, and others very merry at, the memory of Sir John Oldcastle ; whom they have fancied a boon companion, a jovial roister, and yet a coward to boot, contrary to the credit of all chronicles, owning him a martial man of merit. The best is, Sir John Falstaff hath relieved the memory of Sir John Oldcastle, and of late is substituted buffoon in his place ; but it matters as little what petulant poets, as what malicious papists, have written against him.
Page 116 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space ; were it not that I have bad dreams.
Page 131 - Out, and alas ! that was my lady's voice : — Help ! help, ho ! help ! — O lady, speak again ! Sweet Desdemona ! O, sweet mistress, speak ! Des. A guiltless death I die. Emil. O, who hath done This deed ? Des. Nobody ; I myself; farewell : Commend me to my kind lord ; O, farewell.
Page 81 - And worse I may be yet : the worst is not So long as we can say,