Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the PlaysThis engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life.
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... (Hermia's enforced love choice; confusion and exchange of partners in the wood; marriage), in As You Like It(banishment; disguise and playacting in Arden; family reunion and marriage), in Taming of the Shrew (Baptista's condition that ...
... (Hermia's enforced love choice; confusion and exchange of partners in the wood; marriage), in As You Like It(banishment; disguise and playacting in Arden; family reunion and marriage), in Taming of the Shrew (Baptista's condition that ...
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... Hermia: For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne, He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine; And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt, So he dissolv'd, and show'rs of oaths did melt. (1.1.242–5) The same image of melting ...
... Hermia: For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne, He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine; And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt, So he dissolv'd, and show'rs of oaths did melt. (1.1.242–5) The same image of melting ...
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Contents
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2 Marital Life Shakespeare and Romance | 50 |
3 Political Life Shakespeare and Government | 88 |
4 Public Life Shakespeare and Social Structures | 140 |
5 Real Life Shakespeare and Suffering | 180 |
Works Cited | 223 |
Index | 235 |
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