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4 de jul. de 2019 · LibriVox recording of Beauty's Hour by Olivia Shakespear. Read in English by Newgatenovelist. The young, intelligent Mary discovers that through an act of will she can transform her appearance to make herself incredibly beautiful. But will her newfound identity be all that she hopes?
Olivia stands out in Twelfth Night because of her reluctance to take part in the frivolities involving the other characters.Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Maria, and even Viola, are all marked by their sociability with the other characters, whether it’s Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, Maria, and Fabian uniting to play their trick on Malvolio, or Viola deliberately adopting a disguise to get ...
Yeats’s account in his Memoirs of his love affair with Olivia Shakespear (“Diana Vernon”) and his letters to and about Mrs Shakespear (there are 121 letters in Allen Wade’s edition, all but one dating from the period after 1923 when Olivia’s husband, Hope Shakespear, died) provide us with a tantalising image of fin de siècle romance — a romance between a married and hitherto ...
At the beginning of the play, she has rejected both Orsino and her ridiculous suitor, Sir Andrew Aguecheek. In mourning for her recently deceased brother, she has vowed not to receive any man, or to go outside, for seven years. However, when she meets Cesario (Viola in her male costume) she falls in love and forgets these oaths.
W. B. Yeats’s affair with Olivia Shakespear might seem to have been the merest flicker beside his lifelong burning obsession with Maud Gonne: he described it himself as a "brief interruption" to that other passion (qtd. in Harwood 83). Nevertheless it makes a curious and revealing story, and John Harwood shows some skill in piecing it ...
8 de abr. de 2024 · no. 4, June 1901, pp. 124-6), for which Olivia Shakespear was a regular reviewer. There are a number of references to their frequent correspondence during the years 1910-14 in Dorothy Shakespear's letters to Ezra Pound. Yet again, only five letters from Yeats to Olivia Shakespear survive for the years 1901-16.
47 ratings by Goodreads. Softcover. ISBN 10: 1943910405 ISBN 13: 9781943910403. Publisher: Valancourt Books, 2016. View all copies of this ISBN edition: Synopsis. About this edition. 'Then something unforeseen happened: my reflected face grew blurred, and then faded out; and from the mist there grew a new face, of wonderful beauty; the face of ...
