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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Page 204
... become human , begin to live in a real world . He is at this point stung into colossal verbal activity by Rome's rejec- tion of his reality on the word ' traitor ' , and instantly takes on fabulous stature again : Thou injurious tribune ...
... become human , begin to live in a real world . He is at this point stung into colossal verbal activity by Rome's rejec- tion of his reality on the word ' traitor ' , and instantly takes on fabulous stature again : Thou injurious tribune ...
Page 244
... becomes animated with a seem- ingly countless mob of barbarians , armed with staves , mattocks , hatchets , pickaxes , and their wrongs , we become sensible that it is not merely a coward crowd before us , but the onward and increasing ...
... becomes animated with a seem- ingly countless mob of barbarians , armed with staves , mattocks , hatchets , pickaxes , and their wrongs , we become sensible that it is not merely a coward crowd before us , but the onward and increasing ...
Page 408
... become more fa- miliar with the play , and do useful spade - work , but the value of the outside eye of the director becomes evident . We watch the film of Julius Caesar made in 1953. A lean and hungry Gielgud trips up the steps ( but ...
... become more fa- miliar with the play , and do useful spade - work , but the value of the outside eye of the director becomes evident . We watch the film of Julius Caesar made in 1953. A lean and hungry Gielgud trips up the steps ( but ...
Contents
Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
Copyright | |
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