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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... ( lines 62-5 ) . A moment later , having denied knowledge of the thou- sand marks supposedly given him , Dromio finds him- self subjected to a second beating : ' What , wilt thou flout me thus unto my face , / Being forbid ? ' demands his ...
... ( lines 62-5 ) . A moment later , having denied knowledge of the thou- sand marks supposedly given him , Dromio finds him- self subjected to a second beating : ' What , wilt thou flout me thus unto my face , / Being forbid ? ' demands his ...
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... lines becomes the performative vehicle of their chiastic form , rather than the other way around . Again , for a rhetorically sophisticated Elizabethan reading audience this would define the oratorical " wit " of Lucrece's complaint , a ...
... lines becomes the performative vehicle of their chiastic form , rather than the other way around . Again , for a rhetorically sophisticated Elizabethan reading audience this would define the oratorical " wit " of Lucrece's complaint , a ...
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... lines from the servants and the Friar establish most of this atmo- sphere , here more of it comes from the words of Troilus himself . Many of these lines , like Romeo's one , are self - criticism : Troilus implies , at the beginning ...
... lines from the servants and the Friar establish most of this atmo- sphere , here more of it comes from the words of Troilus himself . Many of these lines , like Romeo's one , are self - criticism : Troilus implies , at the beginning ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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