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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Michelle Lee. moment be uncertain whether she is dead or not . The feather fails to stir and we realize " she's dead as earth ” ( V , iii , 262 ) . But Lear's dying certainty that this was the faithful daughter , the one who refused to ...
Michelle Lee. moment be uncertain whether she is dead or not . The feather fails to stir and we realize " she's dead as earth ” ( V , iii , 262 ) . But Lear's dying certainty that this was the faithful daughter , the one who refused to ...
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... dead is only one of the paradoxical features defin- ing his relation to the others in the scene . He digs a grave that is his and not his ; he " lies " in it while the dead Ophelia and the soon - to - be - dead Hamlet and Laertes " lie ...
... dead is only one of the paradoxical features defin- ing his relation to the others in the scene . He digs a grave that is his and not his ; he " lies " in it while the dead Ophelia and the soon - to - be - dead Hamlet and Laertes " lie ...
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... dead Osiris is recorded by Plutarch . Behind all this we hear the echo of the lament for all the dead and rising gods , Adonis , Tammuz , and the rest . But here the accent is more especially on the revival of the dead hero ...
... dead Osiris is recorded by Plutarch . Behind all this we hear the echo of the lament for all the dead and rising gods , Adonis , Tammuz , and the rest . But here the accent is more especially on the revival of the dead hero ...
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