Tag Archives: CL Barber

The Tension Between A Magical And An Empirical View Of Man

Posted on January 9, 2008 by hirohurl

This afternoon, I finished the eighth chapter of C. L. Barber‘s Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy, titled “Rule and Misrule in Henry IV“. The chapter is polished off with a splendid paragraph which crackles with insights that both sum up and point beyond the discussion just concluded. Continue reading →

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Each Man Was His Name And The Role His Name Implied

Posted on January 8, 2008 by hirohurl

In Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy, I came across a remarkable passage today which refers to the way in which the Elizabethans thought about the relation between a man and the name of the role he performed in the “divinely ordained pageant” of this world… Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s Comic And Tragic “Amen Amen”

Posted on January 4, 2008 by hirohurl

The doubled “amen” occurs six times in Shakespeare’s plays. Apart from Coriolanus, in which it appears twice, “Amen amen” occurs once in each of the following plays… Continue reading →

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Extracts from Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy, by C. L. Barber

Posted on December 13, 2007 by hirohurl

Here are some extracts from my current reading of C. L. Barber’s Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy that I found of particular interest, either because of what was written or how it was written, or, best of all, both together. Continue reading →

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