Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the TragediesEverybody's Shakespeare brings the insights and wisdom of one of the finest Shakespearean scholars of our century to the task of surveying why the Bard continues to flourish in modern times. Mack treats individually seven plays--Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Cesar, and Antony and Cleopatra--and demonstrates in each case how the play has retained its vitality, complexity, and appeal. |
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Page 137
... Possibly this distortion reflects the uneasiness , not to say downright discomfort , that in the age of Freud we tend to bring to the contemplation of whatever looks to be heroic or magnificent or grand.69 Or possibly it springs from ...
... Possibly this distortion reflects the uneasiness , not to say downright discomfort , that in the age of Freud we tend to bring to the contemplation of whatever looks to be heroic or magnificent or grand.69 Or possibly it springs from ...
Page 202
... possibly all three ( 5.2.302ff ) . Again , I stress the obvious . What these effects convey is the same in- tricate balance of opposing impulses and conflicting attitudes that char- acterize the play throughout . Somewhere dimly behind ...
... possibly all three ( 5.2.302ff ) . Again , I stress the obvious . What these effects convey is the same in- tricate balance of opposing impulses and conflicting attitudes that char- acterize the play throughout . Somewhere dimly behind ...
Page 262
... possibly , therefore , the meaning of tragic madness for Shake- speare approximated the meaning that the legendary figure of Cassandra ( whom Shakespeare had in fact put briefly on his stage in the second act of Troilus and Cressida ) ...
... possibly , therefore , the meaning of tragic madness for Shake- speare approximated the meaning that the legendary figure of Cassandra ( whom Shakespeare had in fact put briefly on his stage in the second act of Troilus and Cressida ) ...
Contents
Audience and Play | 13 |
Play and History | 39 |
The Ambiguities of Romeo and Juliet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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