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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... Comedy of Errors; As You Like It 2 Naming the Self Troilus and Cressida; Romeo and Juliet; Taming of the Shrew 3 The Self and Language Measure for Measure; Troilus and Cressida 4 The National Self Othello; King Lear 5 The Self at Play ...
... Comedy of Errors; As You Like It 2 Naming the Self Troilus and Cressida; Romeo and Juliet; Taming of the Shrew 3 The Self and Language Measure for Measure; Troilus and Cressida 4 The National Self Othello; King Lear 5 The Self at Play ...
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A Guide to the Plays Laurie Maguire. 4 5 Marriage and Identity Comedy ofErrors; All's Well that Ends Well; Taming of the Shrew Love and Abuse Taming of the Shrew; Merry Wives of Windsor; Othello; Troilus and Cressida 3 Political Life ...
A Guide to the Plays Laurie Maguire. 4 5 Marriage and Identity Comedy ofErrors; All's Well that Ends Well; Taming of the Shrew Love and Abuse Taming of the Shrew; Merry Wives of Windsor; Othello; Troilus and Cressida 3 Political Life ...
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... Comedy of Errors appeared in Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays, ed. Robert S. Miola (New York: Garland Press, 1997). Material on Romeo and Juliet appeared in Shakespeare: Text and Theater, ed. Lois Potter and Arthur F. Kinney (Newark ...
... Comedy of Errors appeared in Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays, ed. Robert S. Miola (New York: Garland Press, 1997). Material on Romeo and Juliet appeared in Shakespeare: Text and Theater, ed. Lois Potter and Arthur F. Kinney (Newark ...
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... comedy typically has a tripartite structure: an opening predicament, a central section of confusion and dissolving identities, followed by restoration. We see this in Comedy of Errors (Egeon's death sentence; mistaken identities in two ...
... comedy typically has a tripartite structure: an opening predicament, a central section of confusion and dissolving identities, followed by restoration. We see this in Comedy of Errors (Egeon's death sentence; mistaken identities in two ...
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... comedy. But whereas comedy is triumphant and circular (the marriages with which it concludes represent the ascendance of the next generation and herald procreation and birth, the human equivalent of spring's ascendance), tragedy is ...
... comedy. But whereas comedy is triumphant and circular (the marriages with which it concludes represent the ascendance of the next generation and herald procreation and birth, the human equivalent of spring's ascendance), tragedy is ...
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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