Byron & Shakespeare - Wils KniIn this volume, G. Wilson Knight deals with the "superabundance of analogies between Byron and Shakespeare" through analysis and literarty criticism of poetry, sonnets and essays. |
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... King Lear , Hamlet , Macbeth — his evenings were passed in seeing Shakespeare . He knew Shakespeare by heart . He lived Shakespeare . He made frequent mention in his journal of the Prince of Denmark's brusque tone . And in that winter ...
... King Lear , Hamlet , Macbeth — his evenings were passed in seeing Shakespeare . He knew Shakespeare by heart . He lived Shakespeare . He made frequent mention in his journal of the Prince of Denmark's brusque tone . And in that winter ...
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... King Lear ( 11 , iv , 289 ) : There is ice at both poles , north and south - all extremes are the same -- misery belongs to the highest and the lowest only , to the emperor and the beggar , when unsixpenced and unthroned . There is , to ...
... King Lear ( 11 , iv , 289 ) : There is ice at both poles , north and south - all extremes are the same -- misery belongs to the highest and the lowest only , to the emperor and the beggar , when unsixpenced and unthroned . There is , to ...
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... King Hamlet . Southampton was a Catholic . The pattern fits only too well . But could Shakespeare want any of this to be recognized ? Was he even aware of the correspondence ? Was it not , at the most , a pushing through of certain ...
... King Hamlet . Southampton was a Catholic . The pattern fits only too well . But could Shakespeare want any of this to be recognized ? Was he even aware of the correspondence ? Was it not , at the most , a pushing through of certain ...
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... kings ' graves and smiling extremity out of act ( p . 286 below ) . Still more , to me , it recalls that statement with which I started , that love can endure anything ; for love in this sense is a new power ; and that is why Byron did ...
... kings ' graves and smiling extremity out of act ( p . 286 below ) . Still more , to me , it recalls that statement with which I started , that love can endure anything ; for love in this sense is a new power ; and that is why Byron did ...
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... King Lear and Timon of Athens is given a condensed expression in one of the Sonnets ( 129 ) , on the Dark Lady : The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action ; and till action , lust Is perjur'd , murderous , bloody ...
... King Lear and Timon of Athens is given a condensed expression in one of the Sonnets ( 129 ) , on the Dark Lady : The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action ; and till action , lust Is perjur'd , murderous , bloody ...
Contents
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III A Regency Hamlet | 73 |
IV Falstaff and Comedy | 117 |
V Richard III and Macbeth | 151 |
VI Timon and Shylock | 188 |
VII Antony and Cleopatras Othello | 227 |
VIII Tempests Lear Prospera | 262 |
IX Henry VIII | 317 |
X The Golden Thread | 333 |
The Separation Controversy | 351 |
Index of Name and Titles | 367 |
Index of Byronic ThemesSelected | 378 |
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