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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... position may be one in which Shake- speare is under a compulsion to sign himself , yet that signature is not his only one in the text , and the Achil- les position is one from which he is also socially dis- placed . Another ...
... position may be one in which Shake- speare is under a compulsion to sign himself , yet that signature is not his only one in the text , and the Achil- les position is one from which he is also socially dis- placed . Another ...
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... position . The scene has three parts : Troilus and Pandarus ; Troilus speaking a soliloquy ; and Troilus and Aeneas . Indeed Aeneas may be said to replace Pandarus at Troilus's side . Troilus is the only charac- ter onstage throughout ...
... position . The scene has three parts : Troilus and Pandarus ; Troilus speaking a soliloquy ; and Troilus and Aeneas . Indeed Aeneas may be said to replace Pandarus at Troilus's side . Troilus is the only charac- ter onstage throughout ...
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... position to make public his relationship with Cressida , the daughter of the traitor Calchas . The war acts as a cover for Troilus . He wants Cressida , he achieves Cressida , and this he does even at the expense of public concerns ...
... position to make public his relationship with Cressida , the daughter of the traitor Calchas . The war acts as a cover for Troilus . He wants Cressida , he achieves Cressida , and this he does even at the expense of public concerns ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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