Wise Fools in Shakespeare
Author : Robert Hillis Goldsmith
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Fools and jesters in literature
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Author : Robert Hillis Goldsmith
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Fools and jesters in literature
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Author : Robert H. Goldsmith
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Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Robert Hillis Goldsmith
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Fools and jesters in literature
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Author : Frederick B. Warde
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Fools and jesters in literature
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I have found occasion in several instances, to differ with some of the well known Shakespearean scholars; but it must always be remembered that I speak from the viewpoint of the actor, for whom, and for whom alone the plays were written. I have not entered the literary dissecting room, nor invaded the realm of psychology. The line of demarcation between humor and imbecility, folly and insanity, I leave to the professional alienist. I have taken the characters as they appear in the plays and as I conceive the author intended them, with due reference to their relation to the other characters. - Preface.
Author : Laurie R. King
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250046580
The first cremation the homeless people held in Golden Gate Park was for a dog; their second pyre held a much larger body. To find the one responsible for these deaths, Kate Martinelli sets out on a quest for Brother Erasmus -- an enigmatic creature who has befriended the homeless and speaks only in quotations.
Author : Robert Hillis GOLDSMITH
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Page : 123 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 1955
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Author : Robert J. Goldsmith
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
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Author : Robert Hillis Goldsmith
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Page : pages
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Author : Sam Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317223608
This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities of the serious world. Like Erasmus, More, and Montaigne before him, Shakespeare employs folly as a mode of understanding that does not arrogantly insist upon the veracity of its own claims – a fool’s truth, after all, is spoken by a fool. Yet, as this study demonstrates, Shakespearean folly is not the sole preserve of professional jesters and garrulous clowns, for it is also apparent on a thematic, conceptual, and formal level in virtually all of his plays. Examining canonical histories, comedies, and tragedies, this study is the first to either contextualize Shakespearean folly within European humanist thought, or to argue that Shakespeare’s philosophy of folly is part of a subterranean strand of Western philosophy, which itself reflects upon the folly of the wise. This strand runs from the philosopher-fool Socrates through to Montaigne and on to Nietzsche, but finds its most sustained expression in the Critical Theory of the mid to late twentieth-century, when the self-destructive potential latent in rationality became an historical reality. This book makes a substantial contribution to the fields of Shakespeare, Renaissance humanism, Critical Theory, and Literature and Philosophy. It illustrates, moreover, how rediscovering the philosophical potential of folly may enable us to resist the growing dominance of instrumental thought in the cultural sphere.
Author : William Shakespeare
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 1810
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