The Absent ShakespeareFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1994 - 174 Seiten Building on recent textual studies of King Lear and Hamlet, which compare Folio and Quarto differences, Mirsky sees them not just as an opportunity to view the playwright revising toward more skillful staging, greater complexity of plot, and ambiguity of character. The process of revision also exposes a personal Shakespeare. Differences between Folio and Quarto texts show the growing sophistication of Shakespeare's dramatic craft and reveal how the playwright changed as he matured. The book presents a dramatist maturing in time, grappling with incest, patricide, filicide, erotic love, and the inevitability of death. It finds this naked Shakespeare in Macbeth and The Tempest as well, expressed in the riddles of the plays. The author refers not only to the text of Shakespeare but also to the plays in performance - suggesting how the actor's reading and interpretation lay bare the intentions of the playwright on the stage. |
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... final folio version of both King Lear and Hamlet seems more plausible , however , with each reading of the plays . Persuasive demonstrations have gone before me , and the support my first ideas find in the thesis that Shakespeare ...
... final folio version of both King Lear and Hamlet seems more plausible , however , with each reading of the plays . Persuasive demonstrations have gone before me , and the support my first ideas find in the thesis that Shakespeare ...
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... final rupture between Lear and his older daughters . On the slithery tongue of the Fool ( and Lear will soon echo his Fool ) , lust and anger " Change places .. handy - dandy " ( FF . 4.6 : 2597 ) . He reveals to the King the nature of ...
... final rupture between Lear and his older daughters . On the slithery tongue of the Fool ( and Lear will soon echo his Fool ) , lust and anger " Change places .. handy - dandy " ( FF . 4.6 : 2597 ) . He reveals to the King the nature of ...
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... final , pathetic cry of the naked human being is the King's only plea of justification . His nakedness is his defense . Only after its admission , does he feel his cold . No wonder then that in Poor Tom's nakedness , Lear sees his own ...
... final , pathetic cry of the naked human being is the King's only plea of justification . His nakedness is his defense . Only after its admission , does he feel his cold . No wonder then that in Poor Tom's nakedness , Lear sees his own ...
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... final authority demand . The bland , gullible Edgar , becomes in his metamorphosis a lewd sexual buffoon . ( I have yet to see this explicit on the stage though the lines make it apparent . ) There is obviously anger in such a ...
... final authority demand . The bland , gullible Edgar , becomes in his metamorphosis a lewd sexual buffoon . ( I have yet to see this explicit on the stage though the lines make it apparent . ) There is obviously anger in such a ...
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... final , fatal mistake . Taken captive with his daughter a few hours later , in act 5 , scene 2 , Lear's blindness leads him to refuse Corde- lia's request that the two " see these Daughters , and these Sisters . " The pathos of the ...
... final , fatal mistake . Taken captive with his daughter a few hours later , in act 5 , scene 2 , Lear's blindness leads him to refuse Corde- lia's request that the two " see these Daughters , and these Sisters . " The pathos of the ...
Inhalt
15 | |
19 | |
The Itch Revises | 33 |
Hamlets Father | 47 |
The Shadows Dance | 71 |
Macbeths Child | 99 |
What Prospero Knows | 125 |
Shakespeares Myth | 141 |
Notes | 147 |
Works Cited | 169 |
Index | 172 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action actor Alfred Harbage ambition anger anxiety audience Banquo begins Caliban calls child Claudius Claudius's conscience Cordelia court cries dark daughter dead death doth drama dream echo Edgar Edited Edmund erotic evil fantasy father fear Ferdinand flesh Folio Fool foul Gertrude Gertrude's Ghost Gloucester Gloucester's Gonerill grave Hamlet hath hear Heaven Hesiod Horatio husband incestuous innocent joke King Lear King's Lady Macbeth Laertes Laertes's latter Lear's lines look Lord Macduff madness magic mind Miranda mock mole mother murder nature never Oedipus Ophelia Osric Pillicock play playwright plot Polonius Prince Prince Hamlet Prince's Prospero question reality reference Regan remark revenge riddle scene Second Quarto seems sense sexual Shake Shakespeare sisters sleep soliloquy Sophocles speaks speech stage suggests suicide T. S. Eliot Tempest thee thou tion tragedy Urkowitz W. W. Greg wife William Shakespeare witches word
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Seite 50 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Seite 37 - Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. I love your majesty According to my bond; nor more nor less.
Seite 64 - Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see, The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds...
Seite 21 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her...
Seite 41 - ... twixt son and father. This villain of mine comes under the prediction; there's son against father. The King falls from bias of nature; there's father against child. We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves.