Shakespearean CriticismPresents 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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... Michael Benthall Laurence Olivier Vivien Leigh Glen Byam Shaw Michael Redgrave Peggy Ashcroft Robert Helpmann Keith Michell Margaret Whiting Joseph Papp Michael Higgins Colleen Dewhurst Michael Langham Christopher Plummer Zoe Caldwell ...
... Michael Benthall Laurence Olivier Vivien Leigh Glen Byam Shaw Michael Redgrave Peggy Ashcroft Robert Helpmann Keith Michell Margaret Whiting Joseph Papp Michael Higgins Colleen Dewhurst Michael Langham Christopher Plummer Zoe Caldwell ...
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... Michael Benthall . " Plain and Coloured . " The Illustrated London News ( October 1973 ) : 103 . Maintains that Tony Richardson's modern dress pro- duction reduced the tragedy to a " noisy melodrama . " Trewin also condemns Vanessa ...
... Michael Benthall . " Plain and Coloured . " The Illustrated London News ( October 1973 ) : 103 . Maintains that Tony Richardson's modern dress pro- duction reduced the tragedy to a " noisy melodrama . " Trewin also condemns Vanessa ...
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... Michael Bogdanov , as pointlessly perverse . The late twentieth - century , east- ern European setting , complains Rutherford , had abso- lutely no correlation to Shakespeare's text . Shulman , Milton . Review of Coriolanus . The ...
... Michael Bogdanov , as pointlessly perverse . The late twentieth - century , east- ern European setting , complains Rutherford , had abso- lutely no correlation to Shakespeare's text . Shulman , Milton . Review of Coriolanus . The ...
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Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
Copyright | |
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