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 48
... fact , was that we had had a splendidly directed battle play , housing some remarkably well played love scenes - love scenes so intimately played that they dominated everything . When we came to Enobarbus ' death , therefore , it seemed ...
... fact , was that we had had a splendidly directed battle play , housing some remarkably well played love scenes - love scenes so intimately played that they dominated everything . When we came to Enobarbus ' death , therefore , it seemed ...
Page 49
... fact that the action ranges over the whole of the historical world of that time . In terms of government the world was tiny , and still is . ( It is as if the action of a modern play were to occur occasionally in the White House ...
... fact that the action ranges over the whole of the historical world of that time . In terms of government the world was tiny , and still is . ( It is as if the action of a modern play were to occur occasionally in the White House ...
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... fact , led us to expect a high standard of continuity in the presentation of Shake- speare's politics . Part of the fascination of that cycle was to follow the fortunes of various unscrupulous characters through several plays at one ...
... fact , led us to expect a high standard of continuity in the presentation of Shake- speare's politics . Part of the fascination of that cycle was to follow the fortunes of various unscrupulous characters through several plays at one ...
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Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
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