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 63
... season , despite Trevor Nunn's understandable public hedging , was intended to be a very special one for the Royal Shakespeare Company . It saw Shakespeare's four Roman plays ' performed in a group for the first time anywhere ' , Rank ...
... season , despite Trevor Nunn's understandable public hedging , was intended to be a very special one for the Royal Shakespeare Company . It saw Shakespeare's four Roman plays ' performed in a group for the first time anywhere ' , Rank ...
Page 172
... season to be performed in that theatre . The celebra- tions for the hundredth season took place only eighty years after the first season ; but they were justified , if justifi- cation was needed , by the fact that in some of the ...
... season to be performed in that theatre . The celebra- tions for the hundredth season took place only eighty years after the first season ; but they were justified , if justifi- cation was needed , by the fact that in some of the ...
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... season well but Trevor Nunn and his team might have served their cause better if they had stretched the Romans out over two seasons— thus winning time for a coherent interpretation and style of staging to emerge . After all the move to ...
... season well but Trevor Nunn and his team might have served their cause better if they had stretched the Romans out over two seasons— thus winning time for a coherent interpretation and style of staging to emerge . After all the move to ...
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Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
Copyright | |
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