The Shakespeare Book
been boasting of the beauty and chastity of their wives. This has filled him with desire for Lucrece. When he reaches Collatium, ...
80 breast / A harmful knife, that thence her soul unsheathed. / That blow did bail it from the deep unrest / Of that polluted pr ...
81 to potential purchasers that the author of a book had an eminent patron, and perhaps in the hope of a reward—two guineas was ...
THE LORD CHAMBER MAN 15 9 4 –1603 ...
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84 B y the time the theaters reopened after the plague epidemic of 1592–94, the literary success Shakespeare had achieved with t ...
85 Theater on the edge Although the Lord Chamberlain’s Men often performed before the queen, theater life was precarious. The co ...
WHO CAN SEVER LOVE FROM CHARITY? LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST (1594–1595) ...
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88 A t the court of Navarre, King Ferdinand tells his lords that, to be successful, they must study and renounce women for three ...
89 Jaquenetta. Biron also gives Costard a letter for Rosaline. Biron curses his foolishness in falling in love—and with a girl s ...
90 L ove’s Labour’s Lost is the most conspicuously poetic of all Shakespeare’s plays, with nearly two-thirds of the play in rhym ...
91 the men squirm. The plot could hardly be simpler. Yet Shakespeare uses this straightforward story to create a gloriously intr ...
DOWN DOWN I COME LIKE GLIST RING PHAETHON RICHARD II (1595) ...
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94 T he play opens with an accusation of treason made by Bolingbroke against Mowbray. The latter stands accused of murdering the ...
95 Hereford, not as the Duke of Lancaster, and that he has a right to defend his inheritance. York allows them to enter the cast ...
96 W hen Richard observes of himself “Down, down I come like glist’ring Phaethon” (3.3.177), he offers a complex image of his ow ...
97 between Richard and his Queen, but to his being “corrupted” in a homosexual sense, in a possible echo of Marlowe’s Edward II ...
98 Father to Bishop of Carlisle RICHARD II Shakespeare’s play was implicated in the problems of his Queen when it was performed ...
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