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 264
... century has led to closer scrutiny of Caesar in both critical commentary and stage presentations . Early directors and managers , who firmly established Bru- tus as the primary figure in Julius Caesar , judged Cassius a worthy second ...
... century has led to closer scrutiny of Caesar in both critical commentary and stage presentations . Early directors and managers , who firmly established Bru- tus as the primary figure in Julius Caesar , judged Cassius a worthy second ...
Page 412
... century pro- ductions suggests that actors spoke a text close to the Folio . But towards the end of the century , when Thomas Betterton took over the role of Brutus , elimination of minor characters and redistribution of speeches - a ...
... century pro- ductions suggests that actors spoke a text close to the Folio . But towards the end of the century , when Thomas Betterton took over the role of Brutus , elimination of minor characters and redistribution of speeches - a ...
Page 437
... centuries of neglect . During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Titus was rarely staged , and then only in radically altered adaptations . An early twentieth- century attempt to restore Shakespeare's original text in- curred ...
... centuries of neglect . During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Titus was rarely staged , and then only in radically altered adaptations . An early twentieth- century attempt to restore Shakespeare's original text in- curred ...
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Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
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