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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Page viii
... thought in words would be banal . That it is not only not banal but is the thing most necessary to emphasize about him at the present time is a comment on the long ascendency of the historical school of criticism in Shakespeare study ...
... thought in words would be banal . That it is not only not banal but is the thing most necessary to emphasize about him at the present time is a comment on the long ascendency of the historical school of criticism in Shakespeare study ...
Page ix
... thought I develop in my introductory chapter , " Cadwal and Polydore , " and more especially in the chapter , " The Poet- Playwright . " ) It was after the present work was projected and partly written that Caroline Spurgeon's ...
... thought I develop in my introductory chapter , " Cadwal and Polydore , " and more especially in the chapter , " The Poet- Playwright . " ) It was after the present work was projected and partly written that Caroline Spurgeon's ...
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... thought what I think now . " All free minds say that . Is " Shakespeare's " Hamlet what he thought of him when he fin- ished the play , or what he thought after he had written King Lear and The Tempest ? Be sure that Hamlet's creator ...
... thought what I think now . " All free minds say that . Is " Shakespeare's " Hamlet what he thought of him when he fin- ished the play , or what he thought after he had written King Lear and The Tempest ? Be sure that Hamlet's creator ...
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... Shakespeare's lifelong pity for " the fools of time " suggests what he might have thought of this way of approaching his works . A thoroughgoing historical critic is a man attempting to explain { 8 } THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE.
... Shakespeare's lifelong pity for " the fools of time " suggests what he might have thought of this way of approaching his works . A thoroughgoing historical critic is a man attempting to explain { 8 } THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE.
Page 10
... nature in " black vesper's pageants " : Antony : That which is now a horse , even with a thought The rack dislimns , and makes it indistinct , As water is in water . EROS : It does , my lord . Antony : { 10 } THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE.
... nature in " black vesper's pageants " : Antony : That which is now a horse , even with a thought The rack dislimns , and makes it indistinct , As water is in water . EROS : It does , my lord . Antony : { 10 } THE MEANING OF SHAKESPEARE.
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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