Shakespearean CriticismWith chronologically arranged excerpts from nearly 400 years of commentary, this illustrated series provides useful support to students and teachers. It presents an extensive collection of critical excerpts dealing with all of Shakespeare's plays and non-dramatic poems. It also traces the history of Shakespeare's plays on the stage and in important films. Included are eyewitness reviews and retrospective evaluations of individual productions. |
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Page 85
... Kean followed the spirit of the part in the most faith- ful manner . " Yet even the largely favorable Hawkins conceded what all critics maintained , that the excellen- cies of Kean's Macbeth were at best intermittent . In certain scenes ...
... Kean followed the spirit of the part in the most faith- ful manner . " Yet even the largely favorable Hawkins conceded what all critics maintained , that the excellen- cies of Kean's Macbeth were at best intermittent . In certain scenes ...
Page 91
... KEAN is not accompanied in every character by any fixed manner of his own . His manner is various . Like the colours ... KEAN'S manner commonly " takes a tincture " from the character he is playing . In Othello he is dignified - in Iago ...
... KEAN is not accompanied in every character by any fixed manner of his own . His manner is various . Like the colours ... KEAN'S manner commonly " takes a tincture " from the character he is playing . In Othello he is dignified - in Iago ...
Page 483
... Kean's talents . One of Kean's contem- porary biographers [ Barry Cornwall , in his Life of Ed- mund Kean , 1835 ] found in Kean's Timon the bitter skep- tic but not the easy , lordly prince . The lightning flashes of intensity or ...
... Kean's talents . One of Kean's contem- porary biographers [ Barry Cornwall , in his Life of Ed- mund Kean , 1835 ] found in Kean's Timon the bitter skep- tic but not the easy , lordly prince . The lightning flashes of intensity or ...
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Macbeth | 1 |
Timon of Athens | 425 |
Selected Studies of Shakespearean Productions | 501 |
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