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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... objects which serve as correlatives to his agitated mental state . The mantle which he throws over his arm , the ... object but her passion's strength renews , And as one shifts another straight ensues . Sometime her grief is dumb ...
... objects which serve as correlatives to his agitated mental state . The mantle which he throws over his arm , the ... object but her passion's strength renews , And as one shifts another straight ensues . Sometime her grief is dumb ...
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... object , as throughout , of Pandarus's attempts to sell her . But their " mercenary - mindedness " and " appetitiveness " is , as Southall notes , " but an abstract of the corruptive spirit " that characterizes the society as a whole ...
... object , as throughout , of Pandarus's attempts to sell her . But their " mercenary - mindedness " and " appetitiveness " is , as Southall notes , " but an abstract of the corruptive spirit " that characterizes the society as a whole ...
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... object of desire for whom " Every tithe soul , ' mongst many thou- sand dismes " had died . Like Cressida , Helen is re- ferred to as " a pearl , " a commodity within the circuit of exchange , stolen in recompense for " an old aunt whom ...
... object of desire for whom " Every tithe soul , ' mongst many thou- sand dismes " had died . Like Cressida , Helen is re- ferred to as " a pearl , " a commodity within the circuit of exchange , stolen in recompense for " an old aunt whom ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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