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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... female was the centerpiece of the spectacles of violence on stage had everything , in the Elizabethan period , to do with the Queen herself . She constantly encouraged an equation to be made between the health of her body , its ...
... female was the centerpiece of the spectacles of violence on stage had everything , in the Elizabethan period , to do with the Queen herself . She constantly encouraged an equation to be made between the health of her body , its ...
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... female body - the most powerful manifestation of which was the appearance of the queen herself the theater was never more political than when it called attention to the body of an aristocratic female . Elizabeth and her people ...
... female body - the most powerful manifestation of which was the appearance of the queen herself the theater was never more political than when it called attention to the body of an aristocratic female . Elizabeth and her people ...
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... female body becomes a place where the body politic can be corrupted . And as the Player Queen corrupts rather than legitimates the blood , she corrupts the official iconography of state ; she be- comes an object of desire in her own ...
... female body becomes a place where the body politic can be corrupted . And as the Player Queen corrupts rather than legitimates the blood , she corrupts the official iconography of state ; she be- comes an object of desire in her own ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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