Titlebook: Shakespeare: The Play of History; Graham Holderness,Nick Potter,John Turner Book 1987 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishe

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ETCH

Prologue: Between Romance and the Realnd of the powerful ambivalence of ‘taboo’, the Venice plays are about the loss of power, or, rather, about the transformation of its meaning. With the disappearance of the ‘sacred’, power loses its capacity to exalt and becomes the merely pragmatic power of the prince and the merchant. Such power is

高腳酒杯

邊緣

Epilogue: ‘This is Venice’law and commerce and political expediency. . dramatizes law as the constituent structure of Venice, . the expediency and negotiation which is both controlled by law and made necessary by it if commerce is to be effectively carried on. Law and expediency are, in a sense, opposites. The Duke in . expr

直言不諱

Prologue: ‘The Histories’ and History society they both address: so the two related terms ‘English’ and ‘history’ appear to define with sufficiently lucid certainty both the generic and the sociological categories to which these plays belong.

eustachian-tube

Hearten

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Spirometry

King Learf these two readings, both equally justifiable and equally controvertible from the various texts of the play, . has given rise to those uneasy charges of anachronism that have always hovered around . with peculiar persistence. Tolstoy put it most directly: ‘The action of . takes place 800 years B. C

思鄉(xiāng)病

Macbethrficial trappings, distracting us from the inner body of truth which should be our real concern. The play, we are told, penetrates ‘to the lower levels of the self, for which social, religious and political life provides only an outward garment’.. ‘It is not “about Scotland” as . is about Rome or .