Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics, and Society in English Renaissance DramaColumbia University Press, 02/05/2000 - 464 páginas -- Garrett A. Sullivan, Shakespeare Quarterly |
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... action turns on the profoundly equivocal significance of that reflexive service , which may be read either as supreme mastery or abject enslavement . Moreover , the play is actually structured as a kind of household drama in which the ...
... action turns on the profoundly equivocal significance of that reflexive service , which may be read either as supreme mastery or abject enslavement . Moreover , the play is actually structured as a kind of household drama in which the ...
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... action of the play repeatedly collapses the difference between them . For to be a servant of any kind in Webster's cor- rupted palaces is to expose oneself to insufferable degradation since " places in the court " as Bosola insists ...
... action of the play repeatedly collapses the difference between them . For to be a servant of any kind in Webster's cor- rupted palaces is to expose oneself to insufferable degradation since " places in the court " as Bosola insists ...
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... action . This deficiency had been addressed in an important book by Frank Whigham that explores the crucial significance of the Henrician redistribu- tion of monastic estates for an understanding of the play's social vision . For ...
... action . This deficiency had been addressed in an important book by Frank Whigham that explores the crucial significance of the Henrician redistribu- tion of monastic estates for an understanding of the play's social vision . For ...
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... actions in a brief but telling litany : MOSBY : There's for the pressing iron you told me of . SHAKEBAG : And there's for the ten pound in my sleeve . ALICE : What , groans thou ? Nay then , give me the weapon . Take this for hind'ring ...
... actions in a brief but telling litany : MOSBY : There's for the pressing iron you told me of . SHAKEBAG : And there's for the ten pound in my sleeve . ALICE : What , groans thou ? Nay then , give me the weapon . Take this for hind'ring ...
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... action is seen to turn , and it is the pressing iron that becomes the primary symbol of that connection . 9 In Holinshed , Mosby is described as " a tailor by occupation , a black swart man , servant to Lord North , " but neither his ...
... action is seen to turn , and it is the pressing iron that becomes the primary symbol of that connection . 9 In Holinshed , Mosby is described as " a tailor by occupation , a black swart man , servant to Lord North , " but neither his ...
Índice
1 | |
49 | |
73 | |
Charity and the Social Order | 99 |
Imagining the Bastard in English | 127 |
Bastardy Counterfeiting and Misogyny in The Revengers | 149 |
Playing with Hands on | 167 |
RACE NATION EMPIRE | 205 |
Othello and Early | 269 |
An Episode of Torture at Bantam | 285 |
Romance Empire and Mercantile Fantasy | 311 |
Nation Language and the Optic | 339 |
Shakespeare | 373 |
Shakespeare and the Tropes | 399 |
Notes | 419 |
Index | 509 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 100 - My lord delayeth his coming ; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken ; the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. And there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Página 76 - The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.
Página 147 - Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Página 227 - I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story And that would woo her.
Página 229 - But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life ; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
Página 198 - Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Página 202 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, // And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take...
Página 218 - Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise ; Awake the snorting citizens with the bell, Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you : Arise, I say.
Página 227 - Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Página 233 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics