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W Norton. Howard, and Katherine Eisaman Maus, eds. The Norton Shakespeare. New York: W. W Norton, List the author of the work, which will likely be William Shakespeare, since "The Norton Shakespeare" contains a collection of his works. Write his name as "Shakespeare, William. I have found my answer. The appearance of various ghosts and Richard feeling dread demonstrated a guilty conscience. With guilt therein is redemption.

Richard III had empathy. For Hitler, Stalin, and some other butchers of humanity did not develop empathy. Both Hitler and Stalin had harsh and cruel fathers. Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death in Auschwitz, operated on twins. In one case, he professorially delivered a Jewish child, I wanted to read Richard III to understand his evil character. In one case, he professorially delivered a Jewish child, and as he left the room, he ordered the mother and the newborn child to be immediately gassed.

Mengele had a cruel mother. His feelings were truncated, shelved, and buried. I have been told that his father was uncaring and harsh. A secondary and important element is guilt and shame. The terms are not synonymous. We usually think of guilt in a legal context, but it can be used in a religious context of guilt and salvation. The antonym of shame is honor. Honor creates fusion in a family, tribe, and community.

In Japan, to lose face results in suicides. Counter wise, guilt and salvation are more individualistic and one of the many byproducts of Christianity.

Individuals can be saved or dammed, but kingdom, empires, and nations cannot be saved or dammed. They either thrive or expire. Later individualism replaced hierarchical and paternal communities with equal rights, popular sovereignty, and nations based upon laws. Today, many people display little shame on how they behave in public, whether talking, dressing, or posting on social media. Etiquette, politeness, and civility have been gored and debauched with toxic individuality.

How can we have the dignity of man humans when we do not behave in an honorable manner? Both are Machiavellian artists thirsting for power.

They make brilliant strategic moves playing one face and then another face. Their deeds are dastardly but not genocidal.

The audience can understand their motivation. We can identify with the villain. As for the audience of Hitler, Stalin, and Dr. Mengele, we cannot identify with mass killers. We cannot grasp their motivation to kill millions of people.

They introduced chaos as mass death, destruction, and night. It was beyond the human pale. With Richard III, we have a morality play between good and evil. Chaos temporarily unbalanced the natural order, but the Spindle of Necessity corrected the spinning whorl.

Richard III is a didactic tale ending with justice. Long live Richard III! I highly recommend this single volume compilation of the complete works of Shakespeare. All of the plays, sonnets, and poems are neatly presented, making them less intimidating to a new reader of Shakespeare, and user-friendly in general. Of course it's huge about 3, pages , but it includes much in addition to Shakespeare's works. There are explanations of all archaic or ambiguous language words, phrases, references which are neatly presented in the margins and footnotes.

Anything and ever I highly recommend this single volume compilation of the complete works of Shakespeare. Anything and everything that could be "Greek" to the modern reader is explained. There is a seventy-four page general introduction by the chief editor one of a team six professors , the scholar Stephen Greenblatt, which is engaging and highly educational. New York: W. Norton , Donnell, Alison. Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England. Studies in English Literature 30, no.

Stephen Greenblatt and M. London: The Norton Company, Said, Edward. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard and remains an unmatched value. The Norton Anthology of English Literature is now available as an interactive ebook, at just a fraction of the print price.

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