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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... mind with the ambassador's visit . Boris Godunov , czar of Russia , died in 1605. In The Winter's Tale , generally dated 1610-11 , Hermione , Queen of Sicilia , is ac- cused falsely of adultery . During her trial defense , she exclaims ...
... mind with the ambassador's visit . Boris Godunov , czar of Russia , died in 1605. In The Winter's Tale , generally dated 1610-11 , Hermione , Queen of Sicilia , is ac- cused falsely of adultery . During her trial defense , she exclaims ...
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... mind as a rallying cry . The Communist indebtedness to Shakespeare is encapsulated in a Pravda testimonial in 1964 , the four hundredth anniversary of the playwright's birth : The whole extent of Soviet art , rich in the traditions of ...
... mind as a rallying cry . The Communist indebtedness to Shakespeare is encapsulated in a Pravda testimonial in 1964 , the four hundredth anniversary of the playwright's birth : The whole extent of Soviet art , rich in the traditions of ...
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... mind ! Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars ( 3.3 ) The description of the handkerchief that Desdemona lost is pure poetry ( 3.4 ) . How much torment and bitterness is in Othello's re- proach of Desdemona : he said that he could ...
... mind ! Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars ( 3.3 ) The description of the handkerchief that Desdemona lost is pure poetry ( 3.4 ) . How much torment and bitterness is in Othello's re- proach of Desdemona : he said that he could ...
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... mind . And how masterfully the dialogue between her and Macbeth is done when she incites him to kill Duncan ( 1.7 ) ! The scene begins with the monologue of the hero telling his horror at possibly committing such a crime . The ...
... mind . And how masterfully the dialogue between her and Macbeth is done when she incites him to kill Duncan ( 1.7 ) ! The scene begins with the monologue of the hero telling his horror at possibly committing such a crime . The ...
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... mind more than particular facts from the epoch of Elizabeth or even the epoch as a whole . The historical sense of Shakespeare remains alive from Herder to Hegel , though on the idealistic basis important for the contemporary ...
... mind more than particular facts from the epoch of Elizabeth or even the epoch as a whole . The historical sense of Shakespeare remains alive from Herder to Hegel , though on the idealistic basis important for the contemporary ...
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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