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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... side , and well back in the center an adaptable stone - structure , used for both throne and hovel ; for Richard III , a series of sharply pointed arches , making the effect of two triangles pointing down - stage , with their apexes ...
... side , and well back in the center an adaptable stone - structure , used for both throne and hovel ; for Richard III , a series of sharply pointed arches , making the effect of two triangles pointing down - stage , with their apexes ...
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... sides to the monu- ment ( hence Adams's preference for the window - stages ) . W. J. Lawrence [ in his The Physical Conditions of the Eliz- abethan Public Playhouse ] proposed that Diomedes ' side of the monument was at the rear of the ...
... sides to the monu- ment ( hence Adams's preference for the window - stages ) . W. J. Lawrence [ in his The Physical Conditions of the Eliz- abethan Public Playhouse ] proposed that Diomedes ' side of the monument was at the rear of the ...
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... side to side , swelling with the triumph of her son . " ] On the 25th of November , 1788 , Shakspeare's " Henry VIII . " after an absence of half a century , was brought for- ward at Drury Lane , with costly dresses and decorations ...
... side to side , swelling with the triumph of her son . " ] On the 25th of November , 1788 , Shakspeare's " Henry VIII . " after an absence of half a century , was brought for- ward at Drury Lane , with costly dresses and decorations ...
Contents
Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
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