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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Page 176
... becomes the paramount victim of that crisis when Puck thrusts the ass - head upon his head and transforms him into a mythological monster . Just as in the speech of Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida . the mimetic crisis is given natural ...
... becomes the paramount victim of that crisis when Puck thrusts the ass - head upon his head and transforms him into a mythological monster . Just as in the speech of Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida . the mimetic crisis is given natural ...
Page 249
... becomes a god and the god becomes a beast . Inferiority becomes superiority and vice versa . Up is down and down is up . During the first scenes , Hermia , being worshiped by everyone , appears to be and feel divine . Helena , being ...
... becomes a god and the god becomes a beast . Inferiority becomes superiority and vice versa . Up is down and down is up . During the first scenes , Hermia , being worshiped by everyone , appears to be and feel divine . Helena , being ...
Page 256
... becomes a benign figure to the repentant Le- ontes , curing him of his " lunes " ( 2.2.30 ) . She in fact becomes a kind of nurse to the reborn Leontes ; her " medicinal " words had failed to " purge " ( 2.3.37-38 ) Leon- tes earlier in ...
... becomes a benign figure to the repentant Le- ontes , curing him of his " lunes " ( 2.2.30 ) . She in fact becomes a kind of nurse to the reborn Leontes ; her " medicinal " words had failed to " purge " ( 2.3.37-38 ) Leon- tes earlier in ...
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