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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... audience too for forgetting her during the Bohemia scenes . When Leontes compliments Perdita Paulina rebukes him also , allowing him to imply the resemblance between his lost wife and his unrecognized daughter in his reply . The final ...
... audience too for forgetting her during the Bohemia scenes . When Leontes compliments Perdita Paulina rebukes him also , allowing him to imply the resemblance between his lost wife and his unrecognized daughter in his reply . The final ...
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... audience is unsure whether the live actress represents a thing of stone or a woman pretending to be stone . They quickly recognize , of course , that this is an actress standing still , not a cunning replica ; but the uncertainty as to ...
... audience is unsure whether the live actress represents a thing of stone or a woman pretending to be stone . They quickly recognize , of course , that this is an actress standing still , not a cunning replica ; but the uncertainty as to ...
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... audience interpretation Julius Caesar 48 : 240 audience perception The Comedy of Errors 1 : 37 , 50 , 56 ; 19 : 54 ; 34 : 258 ; 54 : 136 , 144 King Lear 19 : 295 ; 28 : 325 Richard II 24 : 414 , 423 ; 39 : 295 Pericles 42 : 352 ; 48 ...
... audience interpretation Julius Caesar 48 : 240 audience perception The Comedy of Errors 1 : 37 , 50 , 56 ; 19 : 54 ; 34 : 258 ; 54 : 136 , 144 King Lear 19 : 295 ; 28 : 325 Richard II 24 : 414 , 423 ; 39 : 295 Pericles 42 : 352 ; 48 ...
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