The Absent ShakespeareFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1994 - 174 pages 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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... The Itch Revises 9 11 15 19 33 4. Hamlet's Father 47 5. The Shadow's Dance 71 6. Macbeth's Child 99 7. What Prospero Knows 125 8. Shakespeare's Myth 141 Notes 147 Works Cited 169 Index 172 Bibliographical Note IN the case of King Lear , ...
... The Itch Revises 9 11 15 19 33 4. Hamlet's Father 47 5. The Shadow's Dance 71 6. Macbeth's Child 99 7. What Prospero Knows 125 8. Shakespeare's Myth 141 Notes 147 Works Cited 169 Index 172 Bibliographical Note IN the case of King Lear , ...
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... Hamlet in the Folio is from The Norton Facsimile : The First Folio of Shakespeare , edited by Charlton Hinman ( New York : W. W. Norton , 1968 ) , cited as FF .; the First Quarto of 1603 from the Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles , no . 7 ...
... Hamlet in the Folio is from The Norton Facsimile : The First Folio of Shakespeare , edited by Charlton Hinman ( New York : W. W. Norton , 1968 ) , cited as FF .; the First Quarto of 1603 from the Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles , no . 7 ...
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... of the first readers of the completed manuscript , gave me his discriminating enthusiasm and found a place in that publication for its argu- ments . The Absent Shakespeare 1 The Absent Shakespeare Hamlet and King 11 Acknowledgments.
... of the first readers of the completed manuscript , gave me his discriminating enthusiasm and found a place in that publication for its argu- ments . The Absent Shakespeare 1 The Absent Shakespeare Hamlet and King 11 Acknowledgments.
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... Hamlet and King Lear . I am not speaking of recon- structing the life of a man who lived in the late sixteenth , early seventeenth century , one whose mother died in 1608 , and whose father in 1601.2 ( These however , make interesting ...
... Hamlet and King Lear . I am not speaking of recon- structing the life of a man who lived in the late sixteenth , early seventeenth century , one whose mother died in 1608 , and whose father in 1601.2 ( These however , make interesting ...
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... Hamlet but his dreams , his fantasies , especially as they touch the riddle of fathers , mothers , and children , that set these two plays apart . Closest to them is The Tempest in which the omnipotent father looms . If Ariel and ...
... Hamlet but his dreams , his fantasies , especially as they touch the riddle of fathers , mothers , and children , that set these two plays apart . Closest to them is The Tempest in which the omnipotent father looms . If Ariel and ...
Contents
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The Itch Revises | 33 |
Hamlets Father | 47 |
The Shadows Dance | 71 |
Macbeths Child | 99 |
What Prospero Knows | 125 |
Shakespeares Myth | 141 |
Notes | 147 |
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