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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... York , and I am son to York . Edw . Thou pitied'st Rutland , I will pity thee . Geo . Where's Captain Margaret , to fence you now ? War . They mock thee , Clifford ; swear as thou wast wont . Rich . What , not an oath ? Nay , then the ...
... York , and I am son to York . Edw . Thou pitied'st Rutland , I will pity thee . Geo . Where's Captain Margaret , to fence you now ? War . They mock thee , Clifford ; swear as thou wast wont . Rich . What , not an oath ? Nay , then the ...
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... York . Alone , defeated , he recalls how his sons tried to save him : My sons - God knows what hath bechanced them ; But this I know , they have demean'd themselves Like men born to renown by life or death . Three times did Richard make ...
... York . Alone , defeated , he recalls how his sons tried to save him : My sons - God knows what hath bechanced them ; But this I know , they have demean'd themselves Like men born to renown by life or death . Three times did Richard make ...
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... York was rightful heir to the crown ( II.iii.94 ; I.iii.25-27 ) . Shakespeare's modifications of his historical ... York's claim to the throne . Both attribute the servant's victory to the master's drunkenness , and both end by reporting ...
... York was rightful heir to the crown ( II.iii.94 ; I.iii.25-27 ) . Shakespeare's modifications of his historical ... York's claim to the throne . Both attribute the servant's victory to the master's drunkenness , and both end by reporting ...
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