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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... calls " performativity , " the means by which the norms of sex are naturalized and substantiated simply by their continual pronouncement as foundational and ideal - by the sheer weight of their repetition . Yet because this reiteration ...
... calls " performativity , " the means by which the norms of sex are naturalized and substantiated simply by their continual pronouncement as foundational and ideal - by the sheer weight of their repetition . Yet because this reiteration ...
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... calls performance , these important objections to my line of argument assume that the subversive effects of Viola's disguise are vitiated by the sexual orientation of the character Viola , while it is my position that the language of ...
... calls performance , these important objections to my line of argument assume that the subversive effects of Viola's disguise are vitiated by the sexual orientation of the character Viola , while it is my position that the language of ...
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... call lesbianism or at least romantic friendship , which a poet like Katherine Phillips calls simply friendship , " is attributed to a same - sex loyalty typical of youth or even childhood . The very fact that Helena and Hermia have come ...
... call lesbianism or at least romantic friendship , which a poet like Katherine Phillips calls simply friendship , " is attributed to a same - sex loyalty typical of youth or even childhood . The very fact that Helena and Hermia have come ...
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