The Bubble Reputation, or Shakespeare Lives!

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IGNA Books, 2006 - 302 sider

 William Shakespeare comes through a time warp into modern times and has a hell of time getting his new play put on. His new play, The Third Part of Henry the IV, is included as an appendix.

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Side 28 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Side 140 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.
Side 80 - ... entirely there that we miss nothing; it is as if existence had decided to measure itself by a new standard. And the secret of that standard is shared with us. Shakespeare, who denies his reader nothing, denies him least of all the excitement of feeling that he is where things are simply and finally alive. Only a remarkable artist could have done this, and only a remarkable man — a man, moreover, in whom the balance was well-nigh perfect between understanding and observation, between intellect...
Side 63 - Among the most influential are the New York Times, the New York Post, the New York Daily News...
Side 79 - Poetics" of Aristotle will explain him more readily than the unique literature of his age will explain him.
Side 79 - ... age that produced him. That he was an individual I have no doubt, but he exists for me wholly in the work he did, and I often fail to recognize him in pictures painted of his time. He had too much poetry, and— the same thing f"or him— too much sense, to be the slave of fashions in human being. He is typical of any world that can be understood, and he is the kind of story-teller who can be judged by the most general standards we have.

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Daniel Curzon is a pioneer gay writer.

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