The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1, Volume 1University of Chicago Press, Feb 15, 2009 - 408 pages In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius. |
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... give up staking out claims on him . But if I omit detailed acknowledgments to Shakespearean critics and scholars , there is another deeper kind of indebtedness which I wish not only to acknowledge but to stress : namely , to those ...
... give up staking out claims on him . But if I omit detailed acknowledgments to Shakespearean critics and scholars , there is another deeper kind of indebtedness which I wish not only to acknowledge but to stress : namely , to those ...
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... give us a clue as to what his answer to this very question might have been . It is in Cym- beline — the scene in which the old man , Belarius , recounts how the king's two sons whom he carried off in their childhood and brought up in ...
... give us a clue as to what his answer to this very question might have been . It is in Cym- beline — the scene in which the old man , Belarius , recounts how the king's two sons whom he carried off in their childhood and brought up in ...
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... gives birth to , something as different from either its inner or its outer constituent as water is from the oxygen or the hydrogen that electricity combines . It is my guess that Shakespeare , when he was { 3 } CADWAL AND POLYDORE.
... gives birth to , something as different from either its inner or its outer constituent as water is from the oxygen or the hydrogen that electricity combines . It is my guess that Shakespeare , when he was { 3 } CADWAL AND POLYDORE.
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... give back images and echoes is less obvious and immediate than that of water and air . But it too will meet us halfway . By their very names , the creatures of earth , like the constellations in the sky , bear the record of man's ...
... give back images and echoes is less obvious and immediate than that of water and air . But it too will meet us halfway . By their very names , the creatures of earth , like the constellations in the sky , bear the record of man's ...
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... give signs of having been under such higher controls , and Shakespeare himself gives signs of having recognized that fact . This much at any rate is certain : he was profoundly impressed by the truth that everything contains the seeds ...
... give signs of having been under such higher controls , and Shakespeare himself gives signs of having recognized that fact . This much at any rate is certain : he was profoundly impressed by the truth that everything contains the seeds ...
Contents
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V Titus Andronicus | 33 |
VI Richard III | 35 |
VII The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 41 |
VIII Loves Labours Lost | 48 |
XIV King John | 140 |
XV Richard II | 148 |
XVI Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part II The Merry Wives of Windsor | 161 |
XVII Henry V | 215 |
XVIII Henry VIII | 269 |
XIX Much Ado about Nothing | 271 |
XX As You Like It | 281 |
XXI Twelfth Night | 294 |
IX The PoetPlaywright | 55 |
X The Taming of the Shrew | 68 |
XI A MidsummerNights Dream | 74 |
XII The Merchant of Venice | 81 |
XIII Romeo and Juliet | 117 |
XXII Julius Caesar | 307 |
XXIII Hamlet | 331 |
Index | 387 |
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