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 185
... force , to which one must add imaginative control . Too often the short - long speech about the ' yesting waves ' is a mere gab- ble ; Mr. Gielgud untied the winds very much as three nights previously we had heard Sibelius untie them in ...
... force , to which one must add imaginative control . Too often the short - long speech about the ' yesting waves ' is a mere gab- ble ; Mr. Gielgud untied the winds very much as three nights previously we had heard Sibelius untie them in ...
Page 396
... force intervenes , the hero's will to act diminishes , in favor of degrees of slavery to fate . Is this power , too , in the hands of the Sisters ? Are they Fates ? As executive agents of Satan's malice , or of some archetypal or mythic ...
... force intervenes , the hero's will to act diminishes , in favor of degrees of slavery to fate . Is this power , too , in the hands of the Sisters ? Are they Fates ? As executive agents of Satan's malice , or of some archetypal or mythic ...
Page 483
... force the offer he had made , and at length broke from the clamour his distractors could not si- lence , with an imprecation of tremendous horror on the throng that assailed him . [ Theatrical Inquisitor and Monthly Mirror , October ...
... force the offer he had made , and at length broke from the clamour his distractors could not si- lence , with an imprecation of tremendous horror on the throng that assailed him . [ Theatrical Inquisitor and Monthly Mirror , October ...
Contents
Macbeth | 1 |
Timon of Athens | 425 |
Selected Studies of Shakespearean Productions | 501 |
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