"A Certain Text": Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and Others in Honor of Thomas ClaytonThis collection takes its title from 'Romeo and Juliet' (4.1.21.) when, meeting Paris in Friar Lawrence's cell, Juliet muses, What must be shall be, and the Friar completes her line with, That's a certain text. Where text means a received truth both Friar Lawrence and Clayton are interested skeptics. This essays gathered here reflect this attitude, questioning received ideas about the activities to which Clayton has devoted his professional life- literary editing and the close reading of literary works. |
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Page 98
... says to her father Baptista , of Katherine's “ beauty and her wit , / Her affability and bashful modesty , / Her wondrous qualities and mild behaviour " ( 2.1.48-50 ) , and that is why he wants to marry her . We know that this is not ...
... says to her father Baptista , of Katherine's “ beauty and her wit , / Her affability and bashful modesty , / Her wondrous qualities and mild behaviour " ( 2.1.48-50 ) , and that is why he wants to marry her . We know that this is not ...
Page 102
... says , no matter what he says ( 185–93 ) . When they finally get going , the beginning is not very auspi- cious . Katherine again refuses to accept Petruccio's outrageous insistence that the sun is the moon ( 4.6.2-10 ) , but under ...
... says , no matter what he says ( 185–93 ) . When they finally get going , the beginning is not very auspi- cious . Katherine again refuses to accept Petruccio's outrageous insistence that the sun is the moon ( 4.6.2-10 ) , but under ...
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... says that " this sonnet has been mis- read so often and so mawkishly that it is necessary to say at once , if brutally , that Shakespeare is writing about what cannot be attained " ( 53 ) , but he too concludes that " those fourteen ...
... says that " this sonnet has been mis- read so often and so mawkishly that it is necessary to say at once , if brutally , that Shakespeare is writing about what cannot be attained " ( 53 ) , but he too concludes that " those fourteen ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
Modernizing the Printed PlayText in Jacobean | 18 |
The Dram of Eale | 29 |
Copyright | |
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