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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... Hamlet's opening question asks how the First Clown can sing at gravemaking . Horatio's answer might be taken to apply to more than the gravedigger's experience : " Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness " ( 64 ) . Horatio may ...
... Hamlet's opening question asks how the First Clown can sing at gravemaking . Horatio's answer might be taken to apply to more than the gravedigger's experience : " Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness " ( 64 ) . Horatio may ...
Page 74
... Hamlet ? When scholars defend the discrepancy between Hamlet's youth at the beginning of the play and his obvious age of thirty here , they say it gives the effect of Hamlet's emotional growth and maturity . They do not mention that it ...
... Hamlet ? When scholars defend the discrepancy between Hamlet's youth at the beginning of the play and his obvious age of thirty here , they say it gives the effect of Hamlet's emotional growth and maturity . They do not mention that it ...
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... Hamlet's apparent madness and her father's death . But Claudius's responsibility has definite limits . While it is not possible to measure precisely the influence of his sins on the behavior of his followers , especially the cor ...
... Hamlet's apparent madness and her father's death . But Claudius's responsibility has definite limits . While it is not possible to measure precisely the influence of his sins on the behavior of his followers , especially the cor ...
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