11 “.... moves to London
in the late 1580's and in a remarkably short time,
becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time....
effortlessly mimes the accents of country bumpkins and takes delight in
old
wives tales.” [8]
13
“As a writer he rarely started with a blank slate.... quill
pen raced across the
paper.” [6] and “.... all that is left are words on a
page.... his virtual obsession
with language.” [12]
18
“What matters most are the works, most of which.... without
the First Folio
they might have vanished forever.” [5]
23
“This particular nursery rhyme.... a pleasure all his own.” [5]
24
“In one of his early plays.... long lists of Latin
synonyms.” [10]
25
“In Two Gentlemen of Verona.... total immersion in Latin.”
27
“There is hard evidence.... and wrote the Comedy
of Errors.” [7]
32
“When Shakespeare sat down to write.... the great mass of
ordinary people.”
and “.... They helped him fashion.... figure of
wickedness.” and “The Vice,...
tricks played by the Vice.” [27]
34
“It may seem strange.... perverse holiday.” and “....Shakespeare
grasped....
but Othello.”
and “To achieve
this intensity.... own fools’ eyes.” [35]
35
“Here and throughout his career.... he tries to recount it.” [14]
36
“This is the joke.... to play all the parts.”
[10]
37 “These events.... understanding of the theater.”
[3]
40
“.... fashioning his sense.... beaten and hung over.” [33]
41
“.... as an inexhaustible source.... the magic of the
theater.” [19]
44
“.... trying to entertain the queen.... that business.” [2]
46 “Shakespeare continued to be.... left traces in his work.”
[17]
47
“Years later.... hear the sea-maid’s music?” [26]
49 “Shakespeare offered.... to please his royal guest.”
[27]
51 “Escape from what?.... theatrical catastrophes.”
[12]
52
“The laughter in act 5.... the mask of Arion.” [58]
55
“He did not, in fact.... please to stretch it.” [29]
56
“We are constantly.... likely to bring....“ [4]
57
“He enters deftly.... that you will feed on.” [11]
58
“When he wrote.... be kept in awe.”
64
“My father charged you.... she hears con,
‘cunt’.” [44]
66
“It often happens.... decided not to pursue.” [16]
67 “Throughout his career.... have burnt our cheeks.”
[17]
68
“If Caesar’s cold sobriety.... of she knew me not.” and
“.... Shakespeare wrote this comedy.... both wit and
courage.” [23]
71
“How did the son.... might have followed.” [6]
79
‘That Shakespeare was aware.... half-defensive.” [6]
81
“The dream of restoration.... identity is striking.” [113]
84
“There is no direct relation....
the wild waves.” [31]
87
“This was a society deeply suspicious of vagrancy.
Shakespeare would later make much in his works.... unprotected.”
[2]
97
“....and hence must have been put together.... Will would have
left....
presumably taught.... whom Will certainly came to know....” [4]
105 “....
Will’s talents.... private after-dinner entertainments.” [5]
108 “....
Will.... was a staunch enough Catholic.... in his voluminous
work of a frustrated religious vocation.” [4]
110 "And
saints, Shakespeare understood.... humanly appealing.” [20]
and “There are many forms.... not one of them.” [2]
112 “There
are traces of Catholicism here.... sojourn in the north.”
[46]
119 “....
life-long fascination with women.... in his body and soul.” [25]
121 “Certainly he was able as a playwright.... what of that?”
[36]
123 “If
the playwright’s imagination.... specific dramatic context.” [30]
126 “It
is, perhaps, as much what Shakespeare did not write as....
repeatedly gives is very little.” [62]
129 “Yet
diminished.... expectations.... frustrated longing.... spousal
intimacy.... sexually sophisticated dark lady.” [120]
134 “Men
are April when they woo.... should be undone.” [220]
140 “Shakespeare’s play.... precedes the ‘sanctimonious’
ceremonies.” [86]
151 “The
question.... is not the degree of evidence.... authorities....” [41]
155 “But
if this is the case.... once had gripped him.” [35]
156 “....after he had moved to London.... Oxford students....
famous.” [16]
163 “His
work suggests.... immediately at home.” [3]
166 “That
Shakespeare had this dream is virtually certain....
...... Throw them into the Thames’.” [175]
176 “In
1557 a pregnant woman.... what we do is grotesque.” [77]
197 “Whether or not Shakespeare.... to make a modest profit.”
[67]
192 “The
fingerprints of Tamburlaine....
at Marlowe’s achievement.” [11]
195 “....
was determined.... minor actor.... Stratford-upon-Avon.” [96]
203 “....
afford you whole Hamlets....
would have understood.” [7]
207 “Shakespeare studied Watson’s sonnets.... arrived in
London.” [13]
208 “Shakespeare as by no means without.... academic
self-display.” [4]
209 “Shakespeare may have sensed.... his arrival in London.”
[18]
212 “After
1593.... Greene, Watson, Marlowe dead.... Comedy
of Errors.” [7]
215 “The
account was almost settled.... and Trojan Greeks.” [31]
216 “These parodies only suggest.... and the whole crew.”
[18]
218 “While
probing the relationships.... irrepressible trickster, Panurge.” [34]
221 “He
himself must have been.... Give me life.” [35]
257 “....
immediately understood.... Henry V
I....“ and “One
of Marlowe’s
achievements.... figure of the Jew.” [30]
265 “Such
realism was the medium.... is The
Merchant of Venice.” [13]
272 “Shakespeare loved contradictions.... how he got to
Shylock.” [3]
276 “Was
Shakespeare in this crowd?....betray a certain connoisseurship.” [17]
278 “....
was both intrigued and nauseated.... way of killing him off.” [43]
280 “....
the grizzly execution.... may have witnessed.... synagogue, Tubal.” [128]
289 “....
may have accompanied.... Hamnet filius William Shakspere.” [13]
290 “....
no reason to think.... turns against his mother.” [23]
293 “Driving the competition.... out of business.”
[17]
296 “Thought he was still young.... clowning and laughter.”
[26]
312 “Did
Shakespeare find.... boundaries of the play.” [7]
317 “Whatever he determined at the time.... harrow up thy soul.”
[40]
321 “His
works suggest that he did have faith.... a satisfactory outlet.” [10]
324 “The
conceptual breakthrough.... coherent, well-made play.” [17]
329 “They
were written, however.... the King’s Men.” [10]
335 “....
probably took Banquo.... of rectitude.” [15]
342 “....
in August 1605.... watches the king.” [4]
348 “As
Shakespeare grasped.... king of England and Scotland.” [52]
363 “Shakespeare was hardly alone.... enterprise of making a
living.” [30]
364 “....
exceptionally large income ---- more seriously nettled.” [14]
368 “Somehow in the midst.... or deified.... enclosure.”
[24]
377 “Against a background of personal caution.... rich and
strange.” [61]
382 “....
Shakespeare was fully immersed.... We make thee lady.” [6]
385 “This
seems highly implausible.... force of humiliation.” [14]
388 “If
he himself had once been drawn.... and the intimate.” [16]
389 “....
his daughter Susanna.... to end his days.” [10]
