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 128
... Difference / Sexual Differ- ence . " 20. Peter Stallybrass helped me with this formulation . 21. Laurie Osborne , " The Texts of Twelfth Night , ” ELH ( Spring , 1990 ) , pp . 37-61 . Osborne's excellent analysis of the manipulation of ...
... Difference / Sexual Differ- ence . " 20. Peter Stallybrass helped me with this formulation . 21. Laurie Osborne , " The Texts of Twelfth Night , ” ELH ( Spring , 1990 ) , pp . 37-61 . Osborne's excellent analysis of the manipulation of ...
Page 173
... differences disintegrate , and we are left with characters deprived of true identity or difference , because they keep stupidly repeating the same violent deeds . Tragic opposition is not supremely meaningful as we want to believe , but ...
... differences disintegrate , and we are left with characters deprived of true identity or difference , because they keep stupidly repeating the same violent deeds . Tragic opposition is not supremely meaningful as we want to believe , but ...
Page 176
... difference , indeed , but less and less stable . This illusory difference looms so large that only metaphors of master versus slave , and god versus beast appear adequate to it . As the mimetic model turns into an obstacle and a rival ...
... difference , indeed , but less and less stable . This illusory difference looms so large that only metaphors of master versus slave , and god versus beast appear adequate to it . As the mimetic model turns into an obstacle and a rival ...
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