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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... All's Well that Ends Well; Measure for Measure; Troilus and Cressida ix xiii 12 14 20 30 34 45 50 51 56 60 4 5 Marriage and Identity Comedy ofErrors; All's Well that Studying Shakespeare A Guide to the Plays: Contents.
... All's Well that Ends Well; Measure for Measure; Troilus and Cressida ix xiii 12 14 20 30 34 45 50 51 56 60 4 5 Marriage and Identity Comedy ofErrors; All's Well that Studying Shakespeare A Guide to the Plays: Contents.
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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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... identity as flexible, multiple, and changeable. Plutarch's (and Shakespeare's) interest in the flux of identity is extended by the French essayist Michel de Montaigne, whose Essais (1580) were posthumously translated into English in ...
... identity as flexible, multiple, and changeable. Plutarch's (and Shakespeare's) interest in the flux of identity is extended by the French essayist Michel de Montaigne, whose Essais (1580) were posthumously translated into English in ...
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... texts are “functions or types indicative of orality” whereas those in the long texts have more personal and “life-like” identity (p. 242). 1 See Duncan-Jones 2001: 82–103 for Shakespeare's attempts to acquire. Introduction 7.
... texts are “functions or types indicative of orality” whereas those in the long texts have more personal and “life-like” identity (p. 242). 1 See Duncan-Jones 2001: 82–103 for Shakespeare's attempts to acquire. Introduction 7.
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... identity depends on our companions. A colleague reports that the experience of watching King Lear in the company of her children yielded a crucially different play from that watched in the company of her parents; on the first occasion ...
... identity depends on our companions. A colleague reports that the experience of watching King Lear in the company of her children yielded a crucially different play from that watched in the company of her parents; on the first occasion ...
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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