A Short Guide to ShakespeareA discussion of Shakespeare's life, language, and literary style prefaces a study of the comedies, histories, tragedies, and nondramatic poems and the staging techniques, and cinematic portrayals of Shakespearean works. |
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... Love's Labor's Lost ( V.1.42 ) , Bacon is said to have planted a Latin anagram , Hi ́ludi F. Bacon nati tuiti orbi ( " These plays , offspring of F. Bacon , are preserved for the world " ) . A similar long word , honorificabilitudine ...
... Love's Labor's Lost ( V.1.42 ) , Bacon is said to have planted a Latin anagram , Hi ́ludi F. Bacon nati tuiti orbi ( " These plays , offspring of F. Bacon , are preserved for the world " ) . A similar long word , honorificabilitudine ...
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... LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST The date of Love's Labor's Lost is uncertain , and it is entirely possible that the only existing text is a revision , possibly as late as 1597 , of a play that Shakespeare wrote as early as 1588 . In its present ...
... LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST The date of Love's Labor's Lost is uncertain , and it is entirely possible that the only existing text is a revision , possibly as late as 1597 , of a play that Shakespeare wrote as early as 1588 . In its present ...
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... Love's Labor's Lost although we laugh at the courtiers , first for their efforts to forswear women and then for their efforts to win women , we also gain a glimpse of a world of delightful and high - minded rather than worthless people ...
... Love's Labor's Lost although we laugh at the courtiers , first for their efforts to forswear women and then for their efforts to win women , we also gain a glimpse of a world of delightful and high - minded rather than worthless people ...
Contents
Shakespeares Life | 3 |
The Dramatic Background | 30 |
Style and Structure | 41 |
Copyright | |
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