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The Sweet Silvery Sayings of Shakespeare on the Softer Sex

The Sweet Silvery Sayings of Shakespeare on the Softer Sex - Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

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Publisher's Synopsis

The anonymous 'Old Soldier' who compiled this anthology of passages from Shakespeare, published in 1877, states in the preface that he was inspired to make his selection by a passage in The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character, by the now largely forgotten Victorian essayist James Hain Friswell: 'If a man wanted to make a sugar-sweet book ... let him go through the plays of the great national Poet, and make an extract of those passages wherein he has exalted woman.' In thirty-three sections (four plays are omitted), extensive quotations present examples of 'exalted woman' and give an insight into the taste of the educated middle class in the mid-Victorian period.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781108001298
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 344
Weight: 440g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 20mm