Strands Afar Remote: Israeli Perspectives on ShakespeareAvraham Oz This book is a collection of essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries by Israeli writers. Topic matter includes friendship and love in the Merchant of Venice, Augustinian metaphor in As You Like It, motive, and meaning in All's Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare's translation into Hebrew, and so forth, as well as an afterword by the editor. |
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... turn in a passage that speaks of the power of love to withstand immense material weight and mass : Many waters cannot quench love , neither can the floods drown it . ( Song of Songs , 8 : 7 ) In this figure of fire against water , the ...
... turn in a passage that speaks of the power of love to withstand immense material weight and mass : Many waters cannot quench love , neither can the floods drown it . ( Song of Songs , 8 : 7 ) In this figure of fire against water , the ...
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... turn the prince's love into realizable assets ( a million ) . His hopes of riches and influence depend on such convertibility . At the same time a million , to a poor man , stands for infinity and Hal's love is therefore beyond ...
... turn the prince's love into realizable assets ( a million ) . His hopes of riches and influence depend on such convertibility . At the same time a million , to a poor man , stands for infinity and Hal's love is therefore beyond ...
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... turns the conventional coincidence into a money - making proposition : Gratiano . We'll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats . Nerissa . What , and stake down ? Gratiano . No , we shall ne'er win at that sport , and stake ...
... turns the conventional coincidence into a money - making proposition : Gratiano . We'll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats . Nerissa . What , and stake down ? Gratiano . No , we shall ne'er win at that sport , and stake ...
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... turns to Portia with his new offer of forfeit , Antonio could have quoted the sonnet : Him have I lost , thou hast both him and me , Even in the final tableau when he has won back his wealth he is the sonnet's words still " not free ...
... turns to Portia with his new offer of forfeit , Antonio could have quoted the sonnet : Him have I lost , thou hast both him and me , Even in the final tableau when he has won back his wealth he is the sonnet's words still " not free ...
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... turn the discourse of exclusion back on itself fails . For both Morocco and Shylock use images of violence— " incision " and " pricking , " acts committed with a sharp , invasive instrument — to exhibit their solidarity with the rest of ...
... turn the discourse of exclusion back on itself fails . For both Morocco and Shylock use images of violence— " incision " and " pricking , " acts committed with a sharp , invasive instrument — to exhibit their solidarity with the rest of ...
Contents
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St Augustine Metaphor in As You Like It | 51 |
The Desire for Representation and the Rape of Voice | 62 |
Identity and Agency in Shakespeares | 87 |
Motive and Meaning in Alls Well That Ends Well | 113 |
The Isolation of the Tragic Protagonist | 138 |
The Politics of Tamburlaine and Julius Caesar | 151 |
Hamlets Entrails | 177 |
Othello and Woyzeck as Tragic Heroes According to Aristotle and Hegel | 204 |
Coriolanus and the Compulsion to Repeat | 232 |
A Study in Historical Poetics | 255 |
Prosper Our Colours A CaseNoncase for National Perspectives on Shakespeare and his Contemporaries | 276 |
Index | 301 |
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Page 64 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 148 - Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What do I fear ? myself ? there's none else by : Richard loves Richard ; that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here ? No. Yes, I am : Then fly. What, from myself ? Great reason why : Lest I revenge.
Page 18 - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Page 180 - Will sate itself in a celestial bed, And prey on garbage. But, soft! methinks, I scent the morning air; Brief let me be: — Sleeping within mine orchard, My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment...
Page 60 - tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Page 64 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 78 - There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, That give a coasting welcome ere it comes. And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts To every ticklish reader ! set them down For sluttish spoils of opportunity, And daughters of the game. [Trumpet within. All. The Trojans
Page 105 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.