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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 77
Page 32
... Women in Shakespeare's Othello , " in The Aching Hearth : Family Violence in Life and Literature , edited by Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker , Plenum Press , 1991 , pp . 79-93 . [ In the following essay , Deats argues that ...
... Women in Shakespeare's Othello , " in The Aching Hearth : Family Violence in Life and Literature , edited by Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker , Plenum Press , 1991 , pp . 79-93 . [ In the following essay , Deats argues that ...
Page 41
... women's murder of their illegitimate newborns . Neonatal infan- ticide generated new legislation and increased pros ... women do seem to have killed their children . Although women were generally un- likely to perpetrate violence , when ...
... women's murder of their illegitimate newborns . Neonatal infan- ticide generated new legislation and increased pros ... women do seem to have killed their children . Although women were generally un- likely to perpetrate violence , when ...
Page 91
... women's falls , / Who are too light for to be fortune's balls . " Women are subject to temptation because of their beauty , and they are likely to yield to temptation because they aspire to fame and fortune . Like The Mirrour for ...
... women's falls , / Who are too light for to be fortune's balls . " Women are subject to temptation because of their beauty , and they are likely to yield to temptation because they aspire to fame and fortune . Like The Mirrour for ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
2 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abuse Achilles action Adonis Ajax argues aristocratic beauty becomes behavior blood body characters chastity Chaucer chiastic child murder Collatine Collatine's crime Criseyde critics cultural death Desdemona desire domestic violence doth dramatic early modern Elizabethan England erotic essay example eyes father fear female figure gender Greeks Hamlet hath Hector Helen Henry honor husband infanticide Kate kill king King Lear lence literary London Lucrece's Lucretia male means moral Murdering Mothers narrative narrator Othello painting Pandarus Petruchio's play poem poem's political praise queen Rape of Lucrece reader reading Renaissance representation rhetorical Richard III Romeo and Juliet scene sexual Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's Lucrece Shrew Sinon social Sonnets speare's speech stanza Stockholm syndrome story suicide Taming Tarquin thou tion Titus Andronicus Tragedy trans Troilus and Cressida Troilus's Trojan Troy Ulysses University Press Venus and Adonis victim wife Winter's Tale woman women words York