Books written by Simon Palfrey
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Shakespeare's Possible Worlds
Clearly the play (like Love's Labour's Lost) is directed partly against callow men and their meretricious inflations: a country house mock-pastoral, indicting these courtly constellations as foolish, vaporising fakery.
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Poor Tom: Living "King Lear"
Edgar-the-knight is as secondhand and callow as Spenser's Redcrosse knight, really believing that a. 1. e redundancy of this sort of win-or-lose mathematics is evident throughout the final movements. As A. C. Bradley says, ...
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Macbeth, Macbeth
He knew that none of the villagers dared venture within a country mile of its ghoulish tree skeletons and callow new growth. But he might as well have drawn the boys a map and beckoned them forward with a toffee apple.
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Doing Shakespeare
'He' is each and all, and the childlessness a shared inheritance of callow male insufficiency. Macduff is Macbeth's partner in more than vicarious or proxied slaughter. Like Macbeth, he traverses the boundaries of temptation and resolve ...
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Late Shakespeare: A New World of Words
Triumphes for nothing , and lamenting Toyes , Is jollity for Apes , and greefe for Boyes . Is Cadwall mad ? ( IV . ii 190-5 ) Mistakenly , the scornful Guiderius thinks the music is for Cloten . For the ' ingenious Instrument ' sounds ...
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Poor Tom: Living "King Lear"
I have heard more since, As flies are toth' wanton boyes, are we toth' Gods, ey bi us for their sport. Edg. How should this be, bad is the trade that must play the foole to sorrow angring it selfe and others, blesse thee maister. Glost.
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Shakespeare in Parts
Why all the boyes in Venice follow him, Crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats. (TLN 1067–77) Again, the cue might be 'ducats' solus, in which case Salarino can be cued into a chorus of affirmation at any point; or it might be ...
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Shakespeare's Dead
This books chronicles the ingenious ways of dying in Shakespeare, from suicide to murder, and from workaday dagger to baroque pie recipe.
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Shakespeare's Possible Worlds
Richard Fowler (London and New York: Routledge, 1991). ... Berry, Ralph, ed., On Directing Shakespeare (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1977). ... Brook, Peter, “Finding Shakespeare on Film”, Tulane Drama Review 11:1 (1966).
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Doing Shakespeare
Simon Palfrey takes a direct approach to the common difficulties faced by students "doing" Shakespeare and tackles them head-on in a no-nonsense style, making the book especially accessible.
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Shakespeare in Parts
... Caliban's 'freedom' song, which has an embodied spaciousness that this scene of punishment can do little to ridicule or annul. We are a long way here from the subtly working metaphysics of the central storm scene—and indeed of all of ...