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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... ( Roman Questions 97 ) and other classical sources , as well as from Cartari ( p . 408 ) . After the battle of Corioles , the only reward Coriolanus will accept from the Roman general Cominius for his bravery is a war horse , the ...
... ( Roman Questions 97 ) and other classical sources , as well as from Cartari ( p . 408 ) . After the battle of Corioles , the only reward Coriolanus will accept from the Roman general Cominius for his bravery is a war horse , the ...
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... Roman . On the surface , Mars presents the dramatist with character traits that have at least a little in common with those of Hercules . In Classical mythology he , too , is a strange mixture of competing inclinations . Philo gives us ...
... Roman . On the surface , Mars presents the dramatist with character traits that have at least a little in common with those of Hercules . In Classical mythology he , too , is a strange mixture of competing inclinations . Philo gives us ...
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... Roman mythologisation , an acceptable and even necessary function of political life in Julius Caesar , comes under increasingly pejorative scrutiny in Antony and Cleopatra . This is perhaps because the earlier play does not offer , and ...
... Roman mythologisation , an acceptable and even necessary function of political life in Julius Caesar , comes under increasingly pejorative scrutiny in Antony and Cleopatra . This is perhaps because the earlier play does not offer , and ...
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