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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... gender is contained by the comic form which mandates marriage in the final act . Recent debates on the relative subversive or containing power of gender in Shakespeare's plays focus on the extent to which women ( through transvestite ...
... gender is contained by the comic form which mandates marriage in the final act . Recent debates on the relative subversive or containing power of gender in Shakespeare's plays focus on the extent to which women ( through transvestite ...
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... gender were . " 18 The English Renaissance popularity of both the all - male stage companies and plays about gender switching reflects a social and cultural fascination with the subject who symbolized the bodily cite of this gender ...
... gender were . " 18 The English Renaissance popularity of both the all - male stage companies and plays about gender switching reflects a social and cultural fascination with the subject who symbolized the bodily cite of this gender ...
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... gender identity . Her gender is dependent upon a factor as easily changeable as her weeds are pret - a - porter . Ironically , that attire is still unrecovered at the close of this final scene , as Orsino walks off stage with his ...
... gender identity . Her gender is dependent upon a factor as easily changeable as her weeds are pret - a - porter . Ironically , that attire is still unrecovered at the close of this final scene , as Orsino walks off stage with his ...
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