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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... critics have suggested that extensive mythic patterns inform the major characters and situations of the tragedies , and to varying degrees , the late romances . Ovid's Metamorphoses has long been considered the single - most influential ...
... critics have suggested that extensive mythic patterns inform the major characters and situations of the tragedies , and to varying degrees , the late romances . Ovid's Metamorphoses has long been considered the single - most influential ...
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... critics , in constructing a new set of texts for the plays , have been expressing their own rejections of traditionalist mytholo- gies and reifications . " It is not surprising that both sets of critics have found ample ammunition in ...
... critics , in constructing a new set of texts for the plays , have been expressing their own rejections of traditionalist mytholo- gies and reifications . " It is not surprising that both sets of critics have found ample ammunition in ...
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... critics found in Shakespeare's history plays . It is also implicit in the First Folio arrangement of the plays in a sequence that begins with King John and Ri- chard II and ends with Henry VIII . But it is not the only story Shakespeare ...
... critics found in Shakespeare's history plays . It is also implicit in the First Folio arrangement of the plays in a sequence that begins with King John and Ri- chard II and ends with Henry VIII . But it is not the only story Shakespeare ...
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