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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... death of his father. Few of us would wish to identify with the Machiavellian murderer Richard III, but Freud's paraphrase of Richard's opening soliloquy rehearses the emotional logic which underlies it: “nature has done me a grievous ...
... death of his father. Few of us would wish to identify with the Machiavellian murderer Richard III, but Freud's paraphrase of Richard's opening soliloquy rehearses the emotional logic which underlies it: “nature has done me a grievous ...
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... death in 1613 (he was murdered in the Tower of London) and to his involvement in a court scandal of divorce and remarriage which made the original volume's raison d'être – a verse character of “a wife” – resoundingly topical. Subsequent ...
... death in 1613 (he was murdered in the Tower of London) and to his involvement in a court scandal of divorce and remarriage which made the original volume's raison d'être – a verse character of “a wife” – resoundingly topical. Subsequent ...
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... death sentence; mistaken identities in two sets of twins; family reunion), in Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia's enforced love choice; confusion and exchange of partners in the wood; marriage), in As You Like It(banishment; disguise and ...
... death sentence; mistaken identities in two sets of twins; family reunion), in Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia's enforced love choice; confusion and exchange of partners in the wood; marriage), in As You Like It(banishment; disguise and ...
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... death being represented by winter; the new season/king (spring) ascends. It in its turn ripens (summer), decays (autumn), dies (winter), and is replaced (spring). This archetypal structure may explain why Shakespearean history and ...
... death being represented by winter; the new season/king (spring) ascends. It in its turn ripens (summer), decays (autumn), dies (winter), and is replaced (spring). This archetypal structure may explain why Shakespearean history and ...
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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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