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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... dress , and the suggestions of these critics seem to have been accepted by stage historians . The critic of the Morning Journal , in a description of Mrs. Potter's first entrance said that " she came upon the stage radiant in smiles and ...
... dress , and the suggestions of these critics seem to have been accepted by stage historians . The critic of the Morning Journal , in a description of Mrs. Potter's first entrance said that " she came upon the stage radiant in smiles and ...
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... dress . There was Hamlet . There was The Taming of the Shrew . Then , under this same Mr. Welles's direction , Harlem flirted with a tantalizing , if un- realized , idea in its Voodoo Macbeth . But these produc- tions , vivifying as ...
... dress . There was Hamlet . There was The Taming of the Shrew . Then , under this same Mr. Welles's direction , Harlem flirted with a tantalizing , if un- realized , idea in its Voodoo Macbeth . But these produc- tions , vivifying as ...
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... dress worn by the crowd was dominated by mil- itary garb , Sam Browne belts , epaulettes , and boots . All this may have been modern dress , but , as one critic rightly observed , it was still in costume . Not enough costume , however ...
... dress worn by the crowd was dominated by mil- itary garb , Sam Browne belts , epaulettes , and boots . All this may have been modern dress , but , as one critic rightly observed , it was still in costume . Not enough costume , however ...
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Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
Copyright | |
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