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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... male honor and male shame . As historian Lawrence Stone explained in a paper presented at the annual De Bartolo Conference at the University of South Florida in March 1989 , female honor has tra- ditionally been equated with chastity ...
... male honor and male shame . As historian Lawrence Stone explained in a paper presented at the annual De Bartolo Conference at the University of South Florida in March 1989 , female honor has tra- ditionally been equated with chastity ...
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... male imagination for the male imagination ; it is , in large part , the prod- uct of men talking to men about women . In Lucrece , occasion , rhetoric , and result are all informed by , and thus inscribe , a battle between men that is ...
... male imagination for the male imagination ; it is , in large part , the prod- uct of men talking to men about women . In Lucrece , occasion , rhetoric , and result are all informed by , and thus inscribe , a battle between men that is ...
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... male court to decenter the woman . The two genres of homo- social behavior in the text can be seen as chivalric or antichivalric , Hectoresque or Achillean : the first is ac- tive , specular , militant , conservative , apparently ( not ...
... male court to decenter the woman . The two genres of homo- social behavior in the text can be seen as chivalric or antichivalric , Hectoresque or Achillean : the first is ac- tive , specular , militant , conservative , apparently ( not ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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