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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... Richard III; 1 Henry IV; 2 Henry IV; Henry V; Coriolanus; Julius Caesar 2 Surviving Politics Richard II; Macbeth The Personal versus the Political Richard II; 1 and 2 Henry IV; Henry V 4 Public Life: Shakespeare and Social Structures 1 ...
... Richard III; 1 Henry IV; 2 Henry IV; Henry V; Coriolanus; Julius Caesar 2 Surviving Politics Richard II; Macbeth The Personal versus the Political Richard II; 1 and 2 Henry IV; Henry V 4 Public Life: Shakespeare and Social Structures 1 ...
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... Richard II, know ye not that?” (Ure 1961: lix). During the long madness of George III, stage productions of King Lear were banned in England because the resemblance between the mad Lear and the reigning monarch was thought to be. 1 Read ...
... Richard II, know ye not that?” (Ure 1961: lix). During the long madness of George III, stage productions of King Lear were banned in England because the resemblance between the mad Lear and the reigning monarch was thought to be. 1 Read ...
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... Richard III, but Freud's paraphrase of Richard's opening soliloquy rehearses the emotional logic which underlies it: “nature has done me a grievous wrong in denying me that beauty of form which wins human love. Life owes me reparation ...
... Richard III, but Freud's paraphrase of Richard's opening soliloquy rehearses the emotional logic which underlies it: “nature has done me a grievous wrong in denying me that beauty of form which wins human love. Life owes me reparation ...
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... Richard III's breech birth might have led to a dislocated hip, a compensatory limp, and a crooked spine, with inevitable constant pain. Troughton's reaction: “In pain all his life? What an insight into a character. Here was one very ...
... Richard III's breech birth might have led to a dislocated hip, a compensatory limp, and a crooked spine, with inevitable constant pain. Troughton's reaction: “In pain all his life? What an insight into a character. Here was one very ...
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... Richard II's loss of identity as king when faced with Bullingbrook's takeover: O that I were a mockery king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bullingbrook, To melt myself away in water-drops! (4.1.260–2) The vocabulary of the elements ...
... Richard II's loss of identity as king when faced with Bullingbrook's takeover: O that I were a mockery king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bullingbrook, To melt myself away in water-drops! (4.1.260–2) The vocabulary of the elements ...
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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