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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... human condition, as ways to reflect on our own lives, then our time would be better spent with more accessible forms of entertainment. So while Shakespeare's plays, though instructive, are not didactic, inevitably my discussions ...
... human condition, as ways to reflect on our own lives, then our time would be better spent with more accessible forms of entertainment. So while Shakespeare's plays, though instructive, are not didactic, inevitably my discussions ...
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... human soul . In the final scene , for example , when Othello learns how thoroughly he has been duped , he says to ... human dimensions of the character and thus the way evil actually roots itself in human life . When Frank Findlay played ...
... human soul . In the final scene , for example , when Othello learns how thoroughly he has been duped , he says to ... human dimensions of the character and thus the way evil actually roots itself in human life . When Frank Findlay played ...
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... human beings " playing the parts of " the divinities , totems , or ancestors whose faces they wear ? Surely not . For the time of the ceremony , the performers are the spirits themselves . There's a famous scene of an Ibo tribal ...
... human beings " playing the parts of " the divinities , totems , or ancestors whose faces they wear ? Surely not . For the time of the ceremony , the performers are the spirits themselves . There's a famous scene of an Ibo tribal ...
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... human mind and the human hand. They resist human control, although the story of modern Western culture is the continual and amazingly successful quest to extend human control over nature. The apparent opposition of nomos and physis was ...
... human mind and the human hand. They resist human control, although the story of modern Western culture is the continual and amazingly successful quest to extend human control over nature. The apparent opposition of nomos and physis was ...
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... human community ; otherwise , it will tear apart all human bonds . That is the social role of marriage — it stabilizes sexual energy and channels it into responsible child - bearing . When we began our discussion of A Midsummer Night's ...
... human community ; otherwise , it will tear apart all human bonds . That is the social role of marriage — it stabilizes sexual energy and channels it into responsible child - bearing . When we began our discussion of A Midsummer Night's ...
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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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