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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... king's " rainy eyes " ( III.ii.146 ) as Richard invites Aumerle , Carlisle , and the others to " sit upon the ground / And tell sad stories of the death of kings : / How some have been depos'd . . . ' ( III.ii.155-57 ) . To look on ...
... king's " rainy eyes " ( III.ii.146 ) as Richard invites Aumerle , Carlisle , and the others to " sit upon the ground / And tell sad stories of the death of kings : / How some have been depos'd . . . ' ( III.ii.155-57 ) . To look on ...
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... King Lear . George Sampson , indeed , opens the single paragraph he devotes to the play with the statement : The power of King Lear . . . is so stupendous that we are astonished to remember that it makes no use of the supernatural.24 ...
... King Lear . George Sampson , indeed , opens the single paragraph he devotes to the play with the statement : The power of King Lear . . . is so stupendous that we are astonished to remember that it makes no use of the supernatural.24 ...
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... King James - a highly charged political concern at the time these tragedies were written provides another source for the critical evaluation of succession in Shakespeare's plays . In King John , Shakespeare explored the issue of what ...
... King James - a highly charged political concern at the time these tragedies were written provides another source for the critical evaluation of succession in Shakespeare's plays . In King John , Shakespeare explored the issue of what ...
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