Shakespearean CriticismMichele Lee Presents literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Includes commentary by Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as a full range of views from later centuries, with an emphasis on contemporary analysis. Includes aesthetic criticism, textual criticism, and criticism of Shakespeare in performance. |
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... Hamlet and provides the framework of Shakespeare's play . Unlike Claudius , who murders his brother , Hamlet's Gonzago murders his uncle , and it is through possession of his uncle's wife that this usurper symbolically gains control of ...
... Hamlet and provides the framework of Shakespeare's play . Unlike Claudius , who murders his brother , Hamlet's Gonzago murders his uncle , and it is through possession of his uncle's wife that this usurper symbolically gains control of ...
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... Hamlet as events in an interpsychic melodrama where the two queens are no longer political figures but ciphers of Hamlet's rela- tion to his mother . Instead , I am stressing the figural discontinuity between Gertrude's body and that of ...
... Hamlet as events in an interpsychic melodrama where the two queens are no longer political figures but ciphers of Hamlet's rela- tion to his mother . Instead , I am stressing the figural discontinuity between Gertrude's body and that of ...
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... Hamlet 1 : 151 Henry IV , I and 2 1 : 338 Henry V 5 : 223 Measure for Measure 2 : 460 The Merchant of Venice 4 : 230 , 445 Romeo and Juliet 5 : 458 The Tempest 8 : 345 Stone , George Winchester , Jr. Antony and Cleopatra 17 : 6 ...
... Hamlet 1 : 151 Henry IV , I and 2 1 : 338 Henry V 5 : 223 Measure for Measure 2 : 460 The Merchant of Venice 4 : 230 , 445 Romeo and Juliet 5 : 458 The Tempest 8 : 345 Stone , George Winchester , Jr. Antony and Cleopatra 17 : 6 ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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