Shakespearean CriticismMichelle Lee This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes one through ten present critical overviews of each play and feature criticism from the 17th century to the present. Volumes 11-26 focus on the history of Shakespeare's plays on the stage and in important film adaptations. Volumes 27-56 focus on criticism published after 1960 and provide readers with thematic approaches to Shakespeare's works. Starting with Vol. 57 the series provides general criticism published since 1990 and historical criticism not featured in previous volumes on four to five plays or works per volume. Beginning with Vol. 60, the series replaced its annual compilation of essays representing the year's most noteworthy Shakespearean scholarship with topic entries, comprised of essays that analyze various topics or themes found Shakespeare's works. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Each volume includes a cumulative character index, a topic index and a topic index arranged by play title. |
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... magic ' , an art so potent that it can grant communion with whatever exists beyond the veil of ap- pearances . Ariel is a mediator between the realm of divinity and that of mankind . In Shakespeare's day , Dr John Dee had traffic , a ...
... magic ' , an art so potent that it can grant communion with whatever exists beyond the veil of ap- pearances . Ariel is a mediator between the realm of divinity and that of mankind . In Shakespeare's day , Dr John Dee had traffic , a ...
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... magic , and certainly Shakespeare makes no effort to redeem it . It must , then , signify the dubiety of Prospe- ro's magic " ( 92 ) . Barbara Mowat , in a thoroughly researched and care- fully reasoned essay which builds upon West's ...
... magic , and certainly Shakespeare makes no effort to redeem it . It must , then , signify the dubiety of Prospe- ro's magic " ( 92 ) . Barbara Mowat , in a thoroughly researched and care- fully reasoned essay which builds upon West's ...
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... magical animation of statues in the Hermetic Asclepius . Although Paulina's art is not literal magic , as is Prospero's , the scene suggests the extent to which Hermetic sources have stimulated Shakespeare's imagination as he seeks to ...
... magical animation of statues in the Hermetic Asclepius . Although Paulina's art is not literal magic , as is Prospero's , the scene suggests the extent to which Hermetic sources have stimulated Shakespeare's imagination as he seeks to ...
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