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 234
... final act of chemically - pure melodrama . In a busy quarter - hour Coriolanus and Aufidius mortally wound each other , and the latter , before he expires , attempts to ravish Virgilia , who thwarts him by taking her own life ...
... final act of chemically - pure melodrama . In a busy quarter - hour Coriolanus and Aufidius mortally wound each other , and the latter , before he expires , attempts to ravish Virgilia , who thwarts him by taking her own life ...
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... final scene , there is a recollection of the old Antony as , in contrast to distant Octavius , he walks to the side of dead Brutus and speaks his final warm tribute . This final act qualifies but does not erase Antony's brutality and ...
... final scene , there is a recollection of the old Antony as , in contrast to distant Octavius , he walks to the side of dead Brutus and speaks his final warm tribute . This final act qualifies but does not erase Antony's brutality and ...
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... final scene . Today's theatrical profession- als will continue to make their own choices based upon their sense of their personnel , resources , and audience . My goal in this [ essay ] , especially in my treatment of the final 134 ...
... final scene . Today's theatrical profession- als will continue to make their own choices based upon their sense of their personnel , resources , and audience . My goal in this [ essay ] , especially in my treatment of the final 134 ...
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Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
Copyright | |
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