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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... political purpose of violence is another area in- vestigated by critics . Derek Cohen ( 1993 ) explores the use of violence by a monarch in Henry V. Cohen ar- gues that in this play , violence serves the aims of the monarchy and is ...
... political purpose of violence is another area in- vestigated by critics . Derek Cohen ( 1993 ) explores the use of violence by a monarch in Henry V. Cohen ar- gues that in this play , violence serves the aims of the monarchy and is ...
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... political authority ( Bullough 1973 : 30 , 172-6 ) . It is highly doubt- ful that Shakespeare meant to say both things - psy- chological and political - at once , since they more or less cancel each other out . Hamlet cannot be desiring ...
... political authority ( Bullough 1973 : 30 , 172-6 ) . It is highly doubt- ful that Shakespeare meant to say both things - psy- chological and political - at once , since they more or less cancel each other out . Hamlet cannot be desiring ...
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... political basis of this debate because doing so depends upon seeing the body politic as fe- male . The second notion of the female body develops with the revision of the first under the pressure from Elizabeth's aging body and the ...
... political basis of this debate because doing so depends upon seeing the body politic as fe- male . The second notion of the female body develops with the revision of the first under the pressure from Elizabeth's aging body and the ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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