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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... thought herself in- nocent . For this reason she could walk placidly through any evil she contemplated . She knew that her persuasive power over men lay in her womanliness , and that in this there was nothing compromising . Unlike her ...
... thought herself in- nocent . For this reason she could walk placidly through any evil she contemplated . She knew that her persuasive power over men lay in her womanliness , and that in this there was nothing compromising . Unlike her ...
Page 369
... thought , whose murther yet is but fantasti- cal , Shakes so my single state of man That function is smother'd in surmise , And nothing is but what is not . [ I.iii.39-42 ] " My single state of man " -in that phrase macrocosm and ...
... thought , whose murther yet is but fantasti- cal , Shakes so my single state of man That function is smother'd in surmise , And nothing is but what is not . [ I.iii.39-42 ] " My single state of man " -in that phrase macrocosm and ...
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... thoughts with acts : be it thought and done . [ IV.i.146-49 ] But Scofield divided them and , in so doing , separated the character into two distinct elements . It was like listening to and watching a man alternating unaccountably ...
... thoughts with acts : be it thought and done . [ IV.i.146-49 ] But Scofield divided them and , in so doing , separated the character into two distinct elements . It was like listening to and watching a man alternating unaccountably ...
Contents
Macbeth | 1 |
Timon of Athens | 425 |
Selected Studies of Shakespearean Productions | 501 |
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