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 186
... hero's abilities . In other words , it is in the battle scenes that the audience witnesses the formation of Coriolanus , and does not have to accept the unfounded premise that he is a hero merely because heraldic blood flows in his ...
... hero's abilities . In other words , it is in the battle scenes that the audience witnesses the formation of Coriolanus , and does not have to accept the unfounded premise that he is a hero merely because heraldic blood flows in his ...
Page 218
... hero , but also to Mr. Berkoff's spare and highly theatrical stag- ing . Aside from a dozen straight - back chairs that are de- ployed in seeming emulation of Harold Prince's junta tab- leaus in " Evita , " Mr. Berkoff and his ...
... hero , but also to Mr. Berkoff's spare and highly theatrical stag- ing . Aside from a dozen straight - back chairs that are de- ployed in seeming emulation of Harold Prince's junta tab- leaus in " Evita , " Mr. Berkoff and his ...
Page 220
... hero to life . And Coriolanus needs all the help he can get . A sulker , a turncoat , a despiser of the common people , he is one of the most immediately objectionable of Shake- speare's heroes - not least because he is first and last a ...
... hero to life . And Coriolanus needs all the help he can get . A sulker , a turncoat , a despiser of the common people , he is one of the most immediately objectionable of Shake- speare's heroes - not least because he is first and last a ...
Contents
Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
Copyright | |
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