Profoundly Entertaining: An Introduction to Shakespeare's ArtistryXlibris Corporation, 2. 11. 2006 - Počet stran: 506 Profoundly Entertaining offers the general reader a chance to think about Shakespeares artistry in a sustained way. Entertaining as Shakespeares plays are, that quality by itself wouldnt justify the effort required to overcome the difficulty their language poses. Their enduring popularity suggests that, to varying degrees, their audiences sense their profundity even if they cannot confidently articulate their experience. Without any overarching argument to makemerely with admiration for the most intelligent, honest, courageous, and sustained confrontation of human life of which we have written recordthe book invites its readers to accompany Shakespeare on his journey of exploration into the human condition unobscured by prevailing orthodoxies and comforting illusions. |
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... audience is enormous and, I suspect, growing as film and video bring performances within geographic and financial reach of almost everyone in the U.S., Great Britain, and beyond. The experience did, however, embolden me to try to ...
... audience is enormous and, I suspect, growing as film and video bring performances within geographic and financial reach of almost everyone in the U.S., Great Britain, and beyond. The experience did, however, embolden me to try to ...
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... audience. In my prose I've tried to preserve some of the informality of the spoken word. I favor contractions, and I don't shy away from the first person pronoun, both singular and plural. My understandings of Shakespeare aren't ...
... audience. In my prose I've tried to preserve some of the informality of the spoken word. I favor contractions, and I don't shy away from the first person pronoun, both singular and plural. My understandings of Shakespeare aren't ...
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... audience members are about the play or the music , usually the more keenly they appreciate what is being offered them . Shakespeare's life Let me share another personal anecdote . Recently my wife and I were visiting friends in New ...
... audience members are about the play or the music , usually the more keenly they appreciate what is being offered them . Shakespeare's life Let me share another personal anecdote . Recently my wife and I were visiting friends in New ...
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... audience is drawn as dancers ) . All of these are familiar and acceptable " sports " or " revels . " There's no foregone conclusion which one Theseus will pick . It depends on the specific offerings on Philostrate's list . That Theseus ...
... audience is drawn as dancers ) . All of these are familiar and acceptable " sports " or " revels . " There's no foregone conclusion which one Theseus will pick . It depends on the specific offerings on Philostrate's list . That Theseus ...
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... audiences . Yet , it's no contradiction of that truth to invert Jonson's compliment and acknowledge that Shakespeare's plays were created , not for all time , but for his own age , and indeed , for his own day . Like commercial film ...
... audiences . Yet , it's no contradiction of that truth to invert Jonson's compliment and acknowledge that Shakespeare's plays were created , not for all time , but for his own age , and indeed , for his own day . Like commercial film ...
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Profoundly Entertaining: An Introduction to Shakespeare's Artistry Herbert B. Rothschild Náhled není k dispozici. - 2006 |
Profoundly Entertaining: An Introduction to Shakespeare's Artistry Herbert B. Rothschild Náhled není k dispozici. - 2006 |
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