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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... seems lacking in sustained dramatic tension . Whenever a decisive event is about to take place , something hap- pens to forestall it . Action seems to evaporate into inac- tion , and the passions portrayed in the play seem more notable ...
... seems lacking in sustained dramatic tension . Whenever a decisive event is about to take place , something hap- pens to forestall it . Action seems to evaporate into inac- tion , and the passions portrayed in the play seem more notable ...
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... seems over - impatient with Miranda , demanding that she understand . However determined we as readers or spectators may be to understand the play , many details seem to defy under- standing . As A. D. Nuttall puts it , in the ...
... seems over - impatient with Miranda , demanding that she understand . However determined we as readers or spectators may be to understand the play , many details seem to defy under- standing . As A. D. Nuttall puts it , in the ...
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... seems too straightforward to need it , as though follow- ing , arbitrarily , the dramatist's principle that a love story needs a complication : They are both in either's powers ; but this swift busi- ness I must uneasy make lest too ...
... seems too straightforward to need it , as though follow- ing , arbitrarily , the dramatist's principle that a love story needs a complication : They are both in either's powers ; but this swift busi- ness I must uneasy make lest too ...
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