Studies in Literature: Shakespeare

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

SCENE I. Before OLIVIA's house.

Enter SEBASTIAN and Clown
Clown
Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?
SEBASTIAN
Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow:
Let me be clear of thee.
Clown
Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you; nor
I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you come
speak with her; nor your name is not Master Cesario;
nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so.
SEBASTIAN I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else: Thou
                        know'st not me. 

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MIT.EDU LINKS to the full texts -- of the plays, AND OF THE SONNETS!

  • Othello
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Henry IV, Part 1
  • The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare

Strategic Words & Ideas to Include on your Cheat Sheet

Common Elizabethan words to know this Friday:
And or an' (not as a conjunction, but as a conjunctive adverb!)
wanton (hint: not a type of Chinese food) (III, i)
maugre (III, i)
vouchsafe(d) (III, i)
upbraid(s) (III, i)
fetter (III, i)
laudable (III, ii)
pedant (III, ii)
forbear (III, ii)
chide (III, iii)
beguile (III, iii)
chuck (III, iv)
incensement (III, iv)
sepulcher (III, iv)
forswear (III, iv)
dissemble (IV, ii)
lustrous (IV, ii)





"Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge" (Act III, sc. 3, l. 79)

Link to the Entire Text of HAMLET, by Wm. Shakespeare

Here is a link to the MIT text of Hamlet. (Note that if you wish to do so, you can open the entire play on one page!)

"Here, thou incestious, murd'rous, damned Dane, / Drink off this potion." (Act V, sc. ii, ll. 325-326).

Shakespeare?

Master of Chiasmus

What is chiasmus? Chiasmus is what?

Chiasmus in Midsummer:

"The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth,
from earth to heaven."


Here is a good article on chiastic structure in Shakespeare.


A gull...

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  • Lancaster and Manchester

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