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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Page 117
... speaking is more than a merely thematic matter , since the poem itself performs or activates this same praising word of ... speak- ing , the poem acquires an immanent authorial agency appropriate to its own intentionality , a distinct ...
... speaking is more than a merely thematic matter , since the poem itself performs or activates this same praising word of ... speak- ing , the poem acquires an immanent authorial agency appropriate to its own intentionality , a distinct ...
Page 188
... speak “ high in brass , ” in the orthodox language of official heroism - here , paro- died in the emptied , automatic magniloquence of men too long in authority . Ulysses ' great oration on order is no better than Aga- memnon's and ...
... speak “ high in brass , ” in the orthodox language of official heroism - here , paro- died in the emptied , automatic magniloquence of men too long in authority . Ulysses ' great oration on order is no better than Aga- memnon's and ...
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... speak no more than the truth , " says Pandarus , and Cressida , " Thou dost not speak so much . " We are deprived of a mea- suring - rod - if for a time we are tricked into taking Thersites as the rule for the play's moral dimensions ...
... speak no more than the truth , " says Pandarus , and Cressida , " Thou dost not speak so much . " We are deprived of a mea- suring - rod - if for a time we are tricked into taking Thersites as the rule for the play's moral dimensions ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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