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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... York Times ( 20 January 1954 ) : 34 . Commends the pace , variety , and coherence of John Houseman's revival of Coriolanus at New York's Phoe- nix Theatre . Atkinson praises Robert Ryan for his admi- rably sensitive portrait of the ...
... York Times ( 20 January 1954 ) : 34 . Commends the pace , variety , and coherence of John Houseman's revival of Coriolanus at New York's Phoe- nix Theatre . Atkinson praises Robert Ryan for his admi- rably sensitive portrait of the ...
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... York : Atheneum , 1968 . Locates one major flaw in the Berliner Ensemble's other- wise triumphant production of ... York's Phoenix Theatre . Clurman thanks the director and his cast for making " the plot and most of the words entirely ...
... York : Atheneum , 1968 . Locates one major flaw in the Berliner Ensemble's other- wise triumphant production of ... York's Phoenix Theatre . Clurman thanks the director and his cast for making " the plot and most of the words entirely ...
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... York's CSC Repertory , cut the text heavily ; according to New York Times reviewer Mel Gussow , instead of " seething rages or intellectual furies , " there was only " a succession of chopped limbs and severed heads . " Summarizing the ...
... York's CSC Repertory , cut the text heavily ; according to New York Times reviewer Mel Gussow , instead of " seething rages or intellectual furies , " there was only " a succession of chopped limbs and severed heads . " Summarizing the ...
Contents
Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
Copyright | |
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