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 168
... mother - fixation . " There's no man in the world more bound to's mother " [ V.iii . 158-59 ] , says Volumnia ; and that is the key to both their characters . Their first scene together had great hu- manity and a certain delicate charm ...
... mother - fixation . " There's no man in the world more bound to's mother " [ V.iii . 158-59 ] , says Volumnia ; and that is the key to both their characters . Their first scene together had great hu- manity and a certain delicate charm ...
Page 179
... mother was strong here , and was increased by Volum- nia's addition of " my son " in the line " Prithee now , [ my ... mother's reproofs with infantile sullenness . . . An habit- ual battle of wills , fought out not so long ago about ...
... mother was strong here , and was increased by Volum- nia's addition of " my son " in the line " Prithee now , [ my ... mother's reproofs with infantile sullenness . . . An habit- ual battle of wills , fought out not so long ago about ...
Page 192
... mother's instructions and adopt a mask of humility , he turns into an infant barely able to walk . Finally he is not a mother's boy . There is no great emotional crack - up to Volumnia's supplications : and as Maxine Audley plays them ...
... mother's instructions and adopt a mask of humility , he turns into an infant barely able to walk . Finally he is not a mother's boy . There is no great emotional crack - up to Volumnia's supplications : and as Maxine Audley plays them ...
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Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
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