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 121
... present , which it had not on the former occasion , in having Miss Glyn as Lady Macbeth . Since this now - celebrated actress's first performance of this role in London , she has gone the round of nearly all the great female characters ...
... present , which it had not on the former occasion , in having Miss Glyn as Lady Macbeth . Since this now - celebrated actress's first performance of this role in London , she has gone the round of nearly all the great female characters ...
Page 138
... present , not the future . Macbeth can gaze ahead and see the consequences of crime mir- rored before him ; his wife lives only in the present mo- ment . Once the murder of Duncan is accomplished , it is Macbeth who presses on ; it is ...
... present , not the future . Macbeth can gaze ahead and see the consequences of crime mir- rored before him ; his wife lives only in the present mo- ment . Once the murder of Duncan is accomplished , it is Macbeth who presses on ; it is ...
Page 380
... present - tense is so great that they seem deliberately to pur- sue a policy of forgetting ( in every context ) their mothers and fathers who did beget them - the past is dead , long live the present ( or at least until tomorrow morning ) ...
... present - tense is so great that they seem deliberately to pur- sue a policy of forgetting ( in every context ) their mothers and fathers who did beget them - the past is dead , long live the present ( or at least until tomorrow morning ) ...
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Macbeth | 1 |
Timon of Athens | 425 |
Selected Studies of Shakespearean Productions | 501 |
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