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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... kill me , I'm too young ; kill my father . One of the most striking of the individual tragedies in the trilogy is the one that gives the Quarto version of 3 Henry VI its title , the death of York . Alone , defeated , he recalls how his ...
... kill me , I'm too young ; kill my father . One of the most striking of the individual tragedies in the trilogy is the one that gives the Quarto version of 3 Henry VI its title , the death of York . Alone , defeated , he recalls how his ...
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... kill themselves in order to remain , in Cassius's earlier words , “ masters of their fates . " Their motives in dying are versions of their motives in killing Caesar . Had they defeated Antony and Octavius , they would not be so weary ...
... kill themselves in order to remain , in Cassius's earlier words , “ masters of their fates . " Their motives in dying are versions of their motives in killing Caesar . Had they defeated Antony and Octavius , they would not be so weary ...
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... kill'd " category is abundantly illustrated . Hypnos may well betray those he possesses into the hands of Thanatos ... kill the sleeping Prospero - as Claudius had killed his brother - than Sebastian to kill the sleeping Alonso . In The ...
... kill'd " category is abundantly illustrated . Hypnos may well betray those he possesses into the hands of Thanatos ... kill the sleeping Prospero - as Claudius had killed his brother - than Sebastian to kill the sleeping Alonso . In The ...
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