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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... Give me thy gold , if thou hast any gold " ( II.v.79-80 ) . They are in this war , like ordinary sensible people , for what they can get out of it . Their mo- tives are those of Pistol and his cronies in Henry V. This only sharpens the ...
... Give me thy gold , if thou hast any gold " ( II.v.79-80 ) . They are in this war , like ordinary sensible people , for what they can get out of it . Their mo- tives are those of Pistol and his cronies in Henry V. This only sharpens the ...
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... give their deaths a shape that expresses their sense of the quality of their lives . Sometimes this rich conceit is a conscious exercise of imaginative power ; sometimes it is apparently instinctive . Sometimes the shape the character ...
... give their deaths a shape that expresses their sense of the quality of their lives . Sometimes this rich conceit is a conscious exercise of imaginative power ; sometimes it is apparently instinctive . Sometimes the shape the character ...
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... gives added resonance to the point Shakespeare is secretly making , providing ironic confirmation that the most worn ... give him curses , yet he gives me love . HELENA : O that my prayers could such affection move ! HERMIA : The more I ...
... gives added resonance to the point Shakespeare is secretly making , providing ironic confirmation that the most worn ... give him curses , yet he gives me love . HELENA : O that my prayers could such affection move ! HERMIA : The more I ...
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