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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... Shake- speare plays ) , and the tragedy's 42 scenes are scattered over 25 locales . Peter Brook's Antony and Cleopatra , his first Shakespeare since A Midsummernight's Dream eight years ago , is a sharply original production that ...
... Shake- speare plays ) , and the tragedy's 42 scenes are scattered over 25 locales . Peter Brook's Antony and Cleopatra , his first Shakespeare since A Midsummernight's Dream eight years ago , is a sharply original production that ...
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... Shake- speare wrote . Yet All for Love is significant to a perfor- mance history of Antony and Cleopatra in at least two ways : it defines by contrast what it was that Shakespeare achieved , and it helps define the taste of an age that ...
... Shake- speare wrote . Yet All for Love is significant to a perfor- mance history of Antony and Cleopatra in at least two ways : it defines by contrast what it was that Shakespeare achieved , and it helps define the taste of an age that ...
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... Shake- speare , is reduced to the vulgar abstraction of personal jealousy . That the part is played by the leading Shake- spearian actor of our day only clinches the point : had there been any intention of rendering Cassius ' political ...
... Shake- speare , is reduced to the vulgar abstraction of personal jealousy . That the part is played by the leading Shake- spearian actor of our day only clinches the point : had there been any intention of rendering Cassius ' political ...
Contents
Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
Copyright | |
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