The Bubble Reputation, or Shakespeare Lives!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 6
... Never again! I'd write my own plays and keep control over the results— as best you can in the theatre, that is. I shivered, feeling my nakedness. Then I remembered my manuscript! Dear god, my manuscript came first! I went over to the ...
... Never again! I'd write my own plays and keep control over the results— as best you can in the theatre, that is. I shivered, feeling my nakedness. Then I remembered my manuscript! Dear god, my manuscript came first! I went over to the ...
Side 7
... never take such a chance again! I waved the page gently. A few more pieces broke off, but the main portion remained intact. Oh, thanks be to God! I sighed. I think it's going to be saved. My play is going to be saved! Suddenly the whole ...
... never take such a chance again! I waved the page gently. A few more pieces broke off, but the main portion remained intact. Oh, thanks be to God! I sighed. I think it's going to be saved. My play is going to be saved! Suddenly the whole ...
Side 9
... never, never before had I found himself flying in the behind of a mechanical goose, as naked as the day I was born, without a clue in the world as to where I was headed or why! *********. “It. looks great!” I heard a woman's sharp voice ...
... never, never before had I found himself flying in the behind of a mechanical goose, as naked as the day I was born, without a clue in the world as to where I was headed or why! *********. “It. looks great!” I heard a woman's sharp voice ...
Side 11
... never shall ! ” “ He's stolen it . Hand that over ! We'll have you arrested ! ” “ Forbear , why dost thou thus invade this my privacy ? ” I said . “ Invade ! You're the culprit , my good man ! ” the woman said . “ We paid good money for ...
... never shall ! ” “ He's stolen it . Hand that over ! We'll have you arrested ! ” “ Forbear , why dost thou thus invade this my privacy ? ” I said . “ Invade ! You're the culprit , my good man ! ” the woman said . “ We paid good money for ...
Side 13
... never had. “ I thought so ! You grave robber ! Surrender that play ! ” “ You three are mad ! ” I said . “ If that's a lost play of Shakespeare's , it'll be worth a fortune at the auction ! ” the man from the Chamber of Commerce said ...
... never had. “ I thought so ! You grave robber ! Surrender that play ! ” “ You three are mad ! ” I said . “ If that's a lost play of Shakespeare's , it'll be worth a fortune at the auction ! ” the man from the Chamber of Commerce said ...
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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.