In surveys of the plays that will help readers and viewers follow the action with ease and understanding, Robert Fallon opens a window to ShakespeareAIs time while illuminating the timelessness of his works. Mr. Fallon examines the most frequently staged plays scene by scene, and those less frequently performed act by act. He provides intelligent ...
In his customary jargon-free style, Mr. Fallon examines sixty prominent characters from Shakespeare's plays. He locates each of them in the story of their play, relates them to other characters, shows how they change (or don't), and sums up their character and nature. This book is as handy as they come...distilled without being dunderheaded-reader ...
Fallon explores Shakespeare in five sections dealing with language, theme, staging, character, and plot, each abundantly illustrated with episodes and quotations from the plays. He writes in easily accessible prose in a book designed to make modern readers and audiences feel comfortable with the Bard. Fallon knows his Shakespeare to the letter. ...
This book surveys the most pervasive of Shakespeare's themes, among them love, war, illusion, statecraft, heroism, the supernatural, and the comic. In chapters devoted to each, Mr. Fallon explains how these patterns of meaning were viewed in Shakespeare's time, what history the poet draws upon in presenting them on the stage, and how he suggests ...
This study of Milton's decade in government uses the State Papers. It examines international affairs and analyses the government bureaucracy that conceived and articulated foreign policy during the 1650s. Milton's State Letters reveal his knowledge of international affairs.
In Divided Empire, Robert T. Fallon examines the influence of John Milton's political experience on his great poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. This study is a natural sequel to Fallon's previous book, Milton in Government, which examined Milton's decade of service as Secretary for Foreign Languages to the English ...
"Robert Fallon has reconstructed Milton's career by a thoughtful retracing of where and how foreign policy was made in the 1650s. This is itself a signal service for historians. He has also trawled his way through the uncalendared and poorly listed State Papers Foreign. I would want to return to such a study again and again for information. ...
In this book, Robert Fallon examines the influence of John Milton's political experience on his great poems, "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes". It is a sequel to his previous book, "Milton in Government".
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