On Ten Plays of Shakespeare - Couverture souple

Brooke, Stopford Augustus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1406779083 ISBN 13 : 9781406779080

Editeur : Read Books, 2007

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Midswrmner Night sD ream belongs, probably, to the winter of 1595, and was made, it has been said, to celebrate a marriage. This may well be so; it has a bridal atmosphere. Though the affairs of love are fantastically tangled in it and their music jangled, even in fairyland, yet in the end the tangle is resolved, and the marriagebells are tuneful. It is a comedy oflD va.. A bout four years before, in 1591, Shakespeare had written a tragedy of love in Romeo and Juliet. To begin this book with the earlier play -would have been more historical, but not wiser. Romeo u,nd Juliet is the kind of love-tragedy a young man writes in order to dramatise his pleasure with some imagined sorrow. Shakespeare did not write it out of any personal gloom or any deep knowledge of the trouble of the world. It was written to try his eager and happy hand at tragedy; and a youthful exuberance frequently emerges through lits sorrows. Few things are more different than the tragic spirit in Romeo and Juliet, which was in the story ]D ut not inS hakespeare, and the tragic spirit in Lear and iO theU o, which was in himself and then embodied in the tragedies. The realS hakespeare at this time was full to the brim with the joyous spirit of youth. And A lid wnvmer Night sB ream, represents the actual temper of jhis soul far more truly than Romeo and Juliet. I have therefore chosen to begin with it.
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Read Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1406779083
• ISBN 13: 9781406779080
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible