The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1, Volume 1In 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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... light of his age , has not the time come to try to see him , not in the light of our age , which is just another abstraction , but in the light of the ages and of the present moment , both of which are realities ? " Poetry , " says ...
... light of his age , has not the time come to try to see him , not in the light of our age , which is just another abstraction , but in the light of the ages and of the present moment , both of which are realities ? " Poetry , " says ...
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... light , and lend it not To darken her whose light excelleth thine is obviously a far - off adumbration of Othello's Put out the light , and then put out the light , even to the point of such a detail as Tarquin's " excelleth " which ...
... light , and lend it not To darken her whose light excelleth thine is obviously a far - off adumbration of Othello's Put out the light , and then put out the light , even to the point of such a detail as Tarquin's " excelleth " which ...
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... light on Shake- speare by linking him with his " day " fall all too easily into this same fallacy . They stop where they should be just beginning . Shakespeare , as we have seen , had a lifelong pity for " the fools of time . " " Minute ...
... light on Shake- speare by linking him with his " day " fall all too easily into this same fallacy . They stop where they should be just beginning . Shakespeare , as we have seen , had a lifelong pity for " the fools of time . " " Minute ...
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Contents
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28 | |
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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