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 273
... looks the character to perfection , as SHAKSPEARE has represented it ; and so do Messrs . YOUNG and KEMBLE theirs , with the exception of their respective ages , which ought to look the reverse of what they appear , for Cassius was an ...
... looks the character to perfection , as SHAKSPEARE has represented it ; and so do Messrs . YOUNG and KEMBLE theirs , with the exception of their respective ages , which ought to look the reverse of what they appear , for Cassius was an ...
Page 287
... look of his eyes , in the quarrel scene . The attribute of authority belongs essential- ly to Brutus , and Booth made it impressively obvious . Such a look , doubtless , that of Betterton was , when he said , " For your life you durst ...
... look of his eyes , in the quarrel scene . The attribute of authority belongs essential- ly to Brutus , and Booth made it impressively obvious . Such a look , doubtless , that of Betterton was , when he said , " For your life you durst ...
Page 364
... look . The problem was not in translating from play to film , but from script to film . Still , if we find Mankiewicz's film visu- ally disappointing - a kind of mirror opposite of Welles's early efforts where sheer graphic power ...
... look . The problem was not in translating from play to film , but from script to film . Still , if we find Mankiewicz's film visu- ally disappointing - a kind of mirror opposite of Welles's early efforts where sheer graphic power ...
Contents
Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
Copyright | |
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