Strands Afar Remote: Israeli Perspectives on ShakespeareAvraham Oz This book is a collection of essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries by Israeli writers. Topic matter includes friendship and love in the Merchant of Venice, Augustinian metaphor in As You Like It, motive, and meaning in All's Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare's translation into Hebrew, and so forth, as well as an afterword by the editor. |
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Page 18
... less lucid , more paradoxical , and sexually troubled Shakespearean inversion of the topic in our play where the open- ing situation might be stated as follows : It is a truth equally uni- versally acknowledged that a single man not in ...
... less lucid , more paradoxical , and sexually troubled Shakespearean inversion of the topic in our play where the open- ing situation might be stated as follows : It is a truth equally uni- versally acknowledged that a single man not in ...
Page 27
... less obvious may be understood . Bassanio's arrows are of a piece ; innocent , unreproductive male identity is their mes- sage . Jacob's rods , on the other hand , are marked by and create difference . They are motley , white peeping ...
... less obvious may be understood . Bassanio's arrows are of a piece ; innocent , unreproductive male identity is their mes- sage . Jacob's rods , on the other hand , are marked by and create difference . They are motley , white peeping ...
Page 32
... less resourceful male . In the sonnet the woman's sexual- ity and wealth , kept apart decorously in the play ( but not in // Pecorone ) coalesce in predatory and unacceptable ways . Like Shylock , she does not play by the Gentile rules ...
... less resourceful male . In the sonnet the woman's sexual- ity and wealth , kept apart decorously in the play ( but not in // Pecorone ) coalesce in predatory and unacceptable ways . Like Shylock , she does not play by the Gentile rules ...
Page 45
... less subject to dispute ; but the lack of an explicit religious desig- nation has led at least one recent critic to assume that Morocco is Christian , a judgment which in essence qualifies his outsider status . 32 Morocco's position vis ...
... less subject to dispute ; but the lack of an explicit religious desig- nation has led at least one recent critic to assume that Morocco is Christian , a judgment which in essence qualifies his outsider status . 32 Morocco's position vis ...
Page 46
... less favorable exterior they present can be neutralized by reference to an interior dimension : the blood that flows in all people's veins . By rejecting surface and privileging depth , Moor and Jew at- tempt to use the operative ...
... less favorable exterior they present can be neutralized by reference to an interior dimension : the blood that flows in all people's veins . By rejecting surface and privileging depth , Moor and Jew at- tempt to use the operative ...
Contents
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St Augustine Metaphor in As You Like It | 51 |
The Desire for Representation and the Rape of Voice | 62 |
Identity and Agency in Shakespeares | 87 |
Motive and Meaning in Alls Well That Ends Well | 113 |
The Isolation of the Tragic Protagonist | 138 |
The Politics of Tamburlaine and Julius Caesar | 151 |
Hamlets Entrails | 177 |
Othello and Woyzeck as Tragic Heroes According to Aristotle and Hegel | 204 |
Coriolanus and the Compulsion to Repeat | 232 |
A Study in Historical Poetics | 255 |
Prosper Our Colours A CaseNoncase for National Perspectives on Shakespeare and his Contemporaries | 276 |
Index | 301 |
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Page 64 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 148 - Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What do I fear ? myself ? there's none else by : Richard loves Richard ; that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here ? No. Yes, I am : Then fly. What, from myself ? Great reason why : Lest I revenge.
Page 18 - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Page 180 - Will sate itself in a celestial bed, And prey on garbage. But, soft! methinks, I scent the morning air; Brief let me be: — Sleeping within mine orchard, My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment...
Page 60 - tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Page 64 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 78 - There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, That give a coasting welcome ere it comes. And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts To every ticklish reader ! set them down For sluttish spoils of opportunity, And daughters of the game. [Trumpet within. All. The Trojans
Page 105 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.