Golden Texts from the Works of William Shakespeare; A Collection of Quotations from the Plays and Poems Arranged Under Proper Classification. First Edition, Indexed

Golden texts from the works of William Shakespeare - is a collection of quotations from the plays and poems arranged under proper classification published in 1909 and indexed by William J. Raddatz, Life Member of New York Shakespeare Society. What a joy to wander with Romeo to Juliet's window, to experience this beautiful night of youth and love; what fantasies are born in Othello's indomitable jealousy; what fun in the fall of Falstaff. In them, the higher mind touched a string that will forever remain an echo for all people who will only listen. What can we say about Shakespeare? He leads our fantasies back and forth, first along the roads of fun and laughter, then through the labyrinths of life into the depths of sadness. They live, they breathe, these beings from Shakespeare's imagination; they express the most beautiful thoughts that have ever entered the head of a man. These thoughts, these most sublime concepts, the compiler has attempted to collect under various appropriate headings for easy access by those who may be seeking the deepest expressions on any subject. In many cases, as can be easily seen from the text, the thoughts contained in it speak for themselves. The reader will see that there are only those passages that could be quoted as thoughts, and not just as catchphrases, devoid of anything but purely local significance. Each quotation is accompanied by an act, a scene and a play from which the passage is taken, which allows the reader to establish for himself the connection in which the thought was expressed, and the character from whose mouth the words come. The research is based on the Cambridge text, so the work contains quotations not only from every play, but also from every poem attributed to Shakespeare. Every passage, whether verse or prose, has been carefully copied and not altered in the slightest. This book is both for the student, since it can serve as an incentive for him to further immerse himself in the mystical labyrinths of this amazing genius, and for the lawyer and orator, because in it he will find secret arguments that cannot be refuted and cannot be refuted, as well as the ordinary reader, for he will find here the greatest thoughts that ever occurred to the greatest literary genius of the world.