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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... marriage ceremony- " I take thee , Rosalind , for wife " ( IV.i.129 ) —suggests the degree to which the play legitimizes the multiple desires it represents . The point is not that Orlando and Ganymede formalize a homosexual marriage ...
... marriage ceremony- " I take thee , Rosalind , for wife " ( IV.i.129 ) —suggests the degree to which the play legitimizes the multiple desires it represents . The point is not that Orlando and Ganymede formalize a homosexual marriage ...
Page 264
... marriage and the celebration of a marriage , but no representation of marriage itself - suggests that the interspersed plot lines , which involve escape into night , wood , and dream , are essential to the working out of a major block ...
... marriage and the celebration of a marriage , but no representation of marriage itself - suggests that the interspersed plot lines , which involve escape into night , wood , and dream , are essential to the working out of a major block ...
Page 324
... marriage ; / The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom " ( IV.iii.36-38 ) . Finally , when wooing Queen Elizabeth ... marriage is both desired and violated by Richard throughout the play . His wooing and marriage of Lady Anne , most ...
... marriage ; / The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom " ( IV.iii.36-38 ) . Finally , when wooing Queen Elizabeth ... marriage is both desired and violated by Richard throughout the play . His wooing and marriage of Lady Anne , most ...
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