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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... death in 1616. Today it's impossible to stand on a stage anywhere in the English-speaking world without being conscious that Shakespeare was there before us. He had predecessors and he had successors, but he never had an equal ...
... death in 1616. Today it's impossible to stand on a stage anywhere in the English-speaking world without being conscious that Shakespeare was there before us. He had predecessors and he had successors, but he never had an equal ...
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... death/ Of Learning, late deceas'd in beggary,” a title reminiscent of what were called interludes, semi-dramatic recitations, this one in a satirical vein. Lastly, there's the play “Pyramus and Thisby,” prepared by a small amateur group ...
... death/ Of Learning, late deceas'd in beggary,” a title reminiscent of what were called interludes, semi-dramatic recitations, this one in a satirical vein. Lastly, there's the play “Pyramus and Thisby,” prepared by a small amateur group ...
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... death. Without the First Folio, a full half of Shakespeare's 37 plays1 may have been forever lost to us, and some of the others would have survived only in the unreliable printed editions known as the “bad quartos.” In a poem Ben Jonson ...
... death. Without the First Folio, a full half of Shakespeare's 37 plays1 may have been forever lost to us, and some of the others would have survived only in the unreliable printed editions known as the “bad quartos.” In a poem Ben Jonson ...
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... death there is a world of enduring being, of permanent reality. • Second, it is this world of enduring being that gives human life its significance, that prevents the life we experience day to day from collapsing into confusion ...
... death there is a world of enduring being, of permanent reality. • Second, it is this world of enduring being that gives human life its significance, that prevents the life we experience day to day from collapsing into confusion ...
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... death. The world on the stage is the world of becoming, not of being. • Second, in the world on the stage, there are no guarantees of meaning. For example, people who may think they have an abiding (even God-given) identity that assures ...
... death. The world on the stage is the world of becoming, not of being. • Second, in the world on the stage, there are no guarantees of meaning. For example, people who may think they have an abiding (even God-given) identity that assures ...
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Profoundly Entertaining: An Introduction to Shakespeare's Artistry Herbert B. Rothschild Náhled není k dispozici. - 2006 |
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