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 245
... crowd was especially commended : " . . . cleverly handled . . . worked a cold house up , first to warmth and then to enthusiasm . . . . Absence of plot , absence of love story , scrappiness of situation - all was forgotten in the ...
... crowd was especially commended : " . . . cleverly handled . . . worked a cold house up , first to warmth and then to enthusiasm . . . . Absence of plot , absence of love story , scrappiness of situation - all was forgotten in the ...
Page 419
... crowd of Julius Caesar should not be broken up into details , but should behave as one body . If once you start to characterize individuals and load those individuals with business , the eye of the spectator will wander from the ...
... crowd of Julius Caesar should not be broken up into details , but should behave as one body . If once you start to characterize individuals and load those individuals with business , the eye of the spectator will wander from the ...
Page 424
... crowd should stand in front and to the sides , not in the wings . Thrust stage productions , such as those at Strat- ford , Ontario , appear to profit from placing crowd mem- bers in the auditorium . Mob - size is of relatively little ...
... crowd should stand in front and to the sides , not in the wings . Thrust stage productions , such as those at Strat- ford , Ontario , appear to profit from placing crowd mem- bers in the auditorium . Mob - size is of relatively little ...
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Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
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