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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... lives in those moments , for Lear at least , to a degree she never could before . Although dead , Cordelia is enriched with the mean- ing Lear invests in her . A similar but more prolonged uncertainty occurs at the close of The Winter's ...
... lives in those moments , for Lear at least , to a degree she never could before . Although dead , Cordelia is enriched with the mean- ing Lear invests in her . A similar but more prolonged uncertainty occurs at the close of The Winter's ...
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... lives may laugh . ( IV.iii.372-77 ) Later he tells the senators who have come to seek his aid against Alcibiades ... live still ; Be Alcibiades your plague , you his , And last so long enough ! ( V.i.183-88 ) Timon's opposition to all ...
... lives may laugh . ( IV.iii.372-77 ) Later he tells the senators who have come to seek his aid against Alcibiades ... live still ; Be Alcibiades your plague , you his , And last so long enough ! ( V.i.183-88 ) Timon's opposition to all ...
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... lives not in fear , ( 4.1.3-4 ) reflects his approach to his situation in the latter part of the play ; it is hope that drives him on in his challenge to Edmund , whom he takes on , not sure , though hoping , of the good success he ...
... lives not in fear , ( 4.1.3-4 ) reflects his approach to his situation in the latter part of the play ; it is hope that drives him on in his challenge to Edmund , whom he takes on , not sure , though hoping , of the good success he ...
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