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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... early modern and postmodern notions of sexuality and gender . Many argue that although we have a limited understanding of the sex and gender typologies of early modern England , it is apparent that Shakespeare's contemporaries viewed ...
... early modern and postmodern notions of sexuality and gender . Many argue that although we have a limited understanding of the sex and gender typologies of early modern England , it is apparent that Shakespeare's contemporaries viewed ...
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... early modern England . The critic also suggests that in these poems gender and sexuality are intentionally ambiguous because they constitute a critique of whether desire can be expressed through language . Dollimore , Jonathan ...
... early modern England . The critic also suggests that in these poems gender and sexuality are intentionally ambiguous because they constitute a critique of whether desire can be expressed through language . Dollimore , Jonathan ...
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... early modern England . Sinfield concludes that a common theme among commentators on this issue is that Shakespeare's contemporaries drew different sexual distinctions than we do and , in particular , that they did not link male same ...
... early modern England . Sinfield concludes that a common theme among commentators on this issue is that Shakespeare's contemporaries drew different sexual distinctions than we do and , in particular , that they did not link male same ...
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