William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage Volume 6 1774-1801
Language: English
Pages: 668
ISBN: 0415487315
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Accept it, and seek to account for it by an explanation of his personality. Once again objections to inconsistency or immorality produce psychological analyses, undertaken as a process of exculpation. This procedure is not without its dangers. As in all forms of controversy, the refuter who accepts the accuser’s diagnosis runs the risk of having his categories, and thus the shape of his whole discussion, determined by his opponent’s formulation of them. Earlier critics had complained that.
Manuscripts, in December 1796, then in the voluminous but confused Confessions of 1803. Ireland seems to have been a compulsive liar eager for notoriety, but the real puzzle is how he managed to deceive so many people for so long. Otherwise the episode has no significance for the history of the interpretation of Shakespeare.144 More significant is Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery, a venture that seemed to some commentators to be cashing in on the vogue for Shakespeare but which claimed to have a.
List; Macbeth is seventh (150 times), The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet ninth equal (119 times). In a period where comedies outnumbered tragedies by five to one (p. clxviii), it is not surprising that in the lists of the most popular plays only four serious ones are to be found, all by Shakespeare. Most of the serious drama performed was imported from Germany (p. clxxvi, and many complaints in the journals during the 1790s), and the deadness of English drama during this period can be.
Presents; yet when she comes to do this the very manner of the act, with her comment on it, shews the deed to bear no correspondence with her heart, as will appear from the following passage: Ophelia.—My Lord, I have remembrance of yours, That I have long’d long to re-deliver; I pray you now receive them. Hamlet.—No, I never gave you aught. Oph.—My honoured Lord, you know right well you did; And with them words of so sweet breath composed, [3.1.92ff.] As made the things more rich. The Ghost was.
Question is not about 125 SHAKESPEARE VOL. 6 1774–1801 the reality but the seeming possibility of the action represented…. It is possible for me to conceive that a person might appear at this instant with an army on his march to Poland; but it is not possible for me to conceive that he should return victorious from that country in the space of an hour and a half…[for] neither the dragons of Medea nor the Hippogriff of Astolfo could have transported him thither and back again in so short a.