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 394
... Sisters ' control of natural forces : so that as Witch 1 mentions each weather she could produce it , as she may activate the winds in I , iii . The theatre here regularly furnishes the invoked thunder and lightning ; brave producers ...
... Sisters ' control of natural forces : so that as Witch 1 mentions each weather she could produce it , as she may activate the winds in I , iii . The theatre here regularly furnishes the invoked thunder and lightning ; brave producers ...
Page 396
... Sisters , could include it as a minor allusive note in their polyphony by giving them animal familiars . As scholars have noted , in animal form demons were thought by some Elizabethans to serve witches — and vice versa . Jonson's ...
... Sisters , could include it as a minor allusive note in their polyphony by giving them animal familiars . As scholars have noted , in animal form demons were thought by some Elizabethans to serve witches — and vice versa . Jonson's ...
Page 397
... Sisters ' presence have also been suggestive of a supernatural shaping of Macbeth's world . Edward Carrick Craig ( England , 1932 ) gave one witch a repetitive drumbeat different from the rhythms of the soldiers ' drums , and the ...
... Sisters ' presence have also been suggestive of a supernatural shaping of Macbeth's world . Edward Carrick Craig ( England , 1932 ) gave one witch a repetitive drumbeat different from the rhythms of the soldiers ' drums , and the ...
Contents
Macbeth | 1 |
Timon of Athens | 425 |
Selected Studies of Shakespearean Productions | 501 |
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