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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Page 41
... early Stuart periods and remained high until the early eighteenth century . I am less interested here in the incidence of various forms of child murder , than in the extensive legal and popular representations of child murder and how ...
... early Stuart periods and remained high until the early eighteenth century . I am less interested here in the incidence of various forms of child murder , than in the extensive legal and popular representations of child murder and how ...
Page 58
... early mod- ern period . See MacDonald's recent book , with Terence R. Murphy , Sleepless Souls : Suicide in Early Modern England ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1991 ) , and his various articles on the subject , especially " The Secu ...
... early mod- ern period . See MacDonald's recent book , with Terence R. Murphy , Sleepless Souls : Suicide in Early Modern England ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1991 ) , and his various articles on the subject , especially " The Secu ...
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... early modern men considered natural and right , without resorting to wife - beating . Under the guise of civility , the early modern reform movement made men's masculinity and status as gentlemen con- tingent on achieving and ...
... early modern men considered natural and right , without resorting to wife - beating . Under the guise of civility , the early modern reform movement made men's masculinity and status as gentlemen con- tingent on achieving and ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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