Shakespeare

King Lear: Stephen Greenblatt about genre

‘mythic quality of folktale’

King Lear: Stephen Greenblatt on ending of King Lear

‘deeply pessimistic ending’

King Lear: Stephen Greenblatt on the Problem in King Lear

‘problem of generational transition’

King Lear: Cordelia at the beginning

‘nothing, my lord’ ‘nothing will come of nothing’

King Lear: Goneril about Lear

‘the best and soundest of his time hath been but rash’

King Lear: Edmund to Gloucester

‘look, sir, I bleed’

King Lear: Lear in scene 2.4

‘I shall go mad’

King Lear: how the kingdom is described

‘scattered kingdom’

King Lear: Edmund after Gloucester sides with lear

‘the younger rises when the old doth fall’

King Lear: about the weather

‘this cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen’

King Lear: about the blind

‘tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind’

King Lear: about Goneril and Regan

‘down from the waist they are centaurs’

King Lear: about Cordelia’s death

‘she’s as dead as earth’

King Lear: Edgar in the ending

‘speak what we feel, not what we ought to say’

Paul M. Shupack about King Lear

‘it denies necessity of a just natural order’

Introduction: Shrew about personhood

‘is personhood a succession of social roles’

Introduction: Shrew about Petrucio

‘he reinforces the hierarchal principal upon which the entire Elizabethan social order was premised’

Shrew: the role Tranio takes on

‘you will be schoolmaster’

Shrew: Petruccio and Kate

‘and where two raging fires meet together’

Shrew: Pettrucio about Kate

‘she is my goods’

Shrew: Kate in the end

‘new-built virtue and obedience’

Shrew: Coppélia Kahn about tone of the story

‘comically exaggerated’

Shrew: Coppélia Kahn about Kate

‘outwardly compliant but inwardly independent’

Macbeth: Stephen Greenblatt about king James

‘attentive to his pleasure and interest’

Macbeth: Stephen Greenblatt about tragedy

‘most topical of Shakespeare’s tragedies’

Macbeth: Banquo at the beginning

‘you shall be king’

Macbeth: about chance

‘if chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me’

Macbeth: Lady Macbeth’s wish

‘unsex me here’

Macbeth: Lady Macbeth’s advice

‘look like t’innocent flower,/ But be the serpent under’t’

Macbeth: about himself after the murder

‘Macbeth doth murder sleep’

Macbeth: Lennox about Macbeth

‘our suffering country/ Under a hand accursed’

Macbeth: about Scotland

‘I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;/ It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash/ is added to her wounds’ 

Macbeth: Malcolm about Macbeth

‘he hath a heavenly gift of prophecy’

the tempest: Stephen Greenblatt about transition

‘from civilized society to the wilderness’

the tempest: Stephen Greenblatt about authority

‘is obedience to authority willing or forced?’

The Tempest: Stephen Greenblatt about real life relation

New World

The Tempest: Stephen Greenblatt about education

‘link between literacy and authority’

The Tempest: Ferdinand when he arrives

‘hell is empty, And all the devils are here!’

The Tempest: Caliban to Miranda

‘You taught me language, and my profit on’t/ is I know how to curse’

The Tempest: Gonzalo about the island

‘here is everything advantageous to life’

The Tempest: Caliban to Stephano

‘I’ll show thee every fertile inch o’th’ island, and I will kiss thy foot. I prithee, be my god’

The Tempest: Miranda in the end

‘oh, brave new world/ That has such people in’t!’