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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... Miss Vivien Leigh is not an exception , though she makes her own kind of brave at- tempt at it . But she is not , and never will be , a classical tragic actress . She simply lacks the stature all round . Her Cleopatra misses , in ...
... Miss Vivien Leigh is not an exception , though she makes her own kind of brave at- tempt at it . But she is not , and never will be , a classical tragic actress . She simply lacks the stature all round . Her Cleopatra misses , in ...
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... Miss Peggy Ashcroft's triumph as Cleopatra at Stratford last week should have happened in a more extravagant age . How comparatively cold and restrained is mere hand- clapping , how feeble an English theatre audience's efforts to cheer ...
... Miss Peggy Ashcroft's triumph as Cleopatra at Stratford last week should have happened in a more extravagant age . How comparatively cold and restrained is mere hand- clapping , how feeble an English theatre audience's efforts to cheer ...
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... Miss Dorothy Green's performance as Cleopatra . She realizes ( as few in recent years ) the infinite vari- ety of the Queen's moods . Stately , sinuous , arro- gant , seductive , pleading , passionate , Miss Green is everything in turn ...
... Miss Dorothy Green's performance as Cleopatra . She realizes ( as few in recent years ) the infinite vari- ety of the Queen's moods . Stately , sinuous , arro- gant , seductive , pleading , passionate , Miss Green is everything in turn ...
Contents
Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
Copyright | |
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