Russian Essays on Shakespeare and His ContemporariesAleksandr Tikhonovich Parfenov, Joseph G. Price In explaining the plays of Shakespeare to the audiences and readers of the former Soviet Union, the editors chose essays they thought were significant, in light of the historical and cultural perspectives they contained. These perspectives are felt necessary for a complete understanding of Shakespeare's plays by the modern reader. The outward-directed essays help explain the origins of Shakespeare's importance to Russian theater and literature in the nineteenth century, as well as his pervasive influence through decades of communism. |
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... character , not an event . The popular drama of the Middle Ages , in which biblical tales were retold , is at the ... characters in the fable , but put them in the mouths of the latter as they would inform one another . Already , at ...
... character , not an event . The popular drama of the Middle Ages , in which biblical tales were retold , is at the ... characters in the fable , but put them in the mouths of the latter as they would inform one another . Already , at ...
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... characters in Hamlet than in almost any other play written by Shakespeare . But they occur in all his other tragedies , comedies , and histories as well . Let us return to the narrative elements in Hamlet . Filling in the spectator on ...
... characters in Hamlet than in almost any other play written by Shakespeare . But they occur in all his other tragedies , comedies , and histories as well . Let us return to the narrative elements in Hamlet . Filling in the spectator on ...
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... character to his plays . This even goes for Macbeth : the fate of the hero is not determined by the prophesy of the ... characters in a similar situ- ation in Hamlet — the three sons whose fathers have been killed : Hamlet , Fortinbras ...
... character to his plays . This even goes for Macbeth : the fate of the hero is not determined by the prophesy of the ... characters in a similar situ- ation in Hamlet — the three sons whose fathers have been killed : Hamlet , Fortinbras ...
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... characters in Shakespeare's plays do not only act . As the events unfold they tell the motives for what they do and what they feel : they try to understand their fate . People do not usually speak about what is deeply personal but keep ...
... characters in Shakespeare's plays do not only act . As the events unfold they tell the motives for what they do and what they feel : they try to understand their fate . People do not usually speak about what is deeply personal but keep ...
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... characters , has real meaning only in the context of the play . When taken separately , these speeches often lose ... character who makes them and with the given dramatic situation , they ac- quire an amazing depth . Common thoughts ...
... characters , has real meaning only in the context of the play . When taken separately , these speeches often lose ... character who makes them and with the given dramatic situation , they ac- quire an amazing depth . Common thoughts ...
Contents
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NineteenthCentury Attitudes | 78 |
Three Shakespearean Stories in Nineteenth Century Russia | 97 |
Shakespeare and the Advent of Modern Prose | 113 |
On the Typology of Contemporary Shakespearean Production | 127 |
Metamorphoses Theatricality | 133 |
A New Dating for Shakespeares The Phoenix and the Turtle and the Identification of Its Protagonists | 146 |
The Pastoral in Marlowe Raleigh Shakespeare and Donne | 185 |
List of Contributors | 201 |
Index | 204 |
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Page 69 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 35 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 120 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 97 - He was the least of an egotist that it was possible to be. He was nothing in himself, but he was all that others were, or that they could become.
Page 36 - When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Page 35 - Ha, ha ! keep time. — How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportion kept ! So is it in the music of men's lives...
Page 188 - IF all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
Page 117 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 188 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.
Page 26 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
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Painting Shakespeare Red: An East-European Appropriation Aleksandŭr Shurbanov,Boika Sokolova Limited preview - 2001 |