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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Page 207
... mother for the sake of Rome . They may also remind us of Henry IV's grim description of the motherland during civil war as daubing " her lips with her own children's blood " ( I Henry IV : I.i.6 ) . In fact the bloodthirsty Roman mother ...
... mother for the sake of Rome . They may also remind us of Henry IV's grim description of the motherland during civil war as daubing " her lips with her own children's blood " ( I Henry IV : I.i.6 ) . In fact the bloodthirsty Roman mother ...
Page 208
... mother , warrior and purification - although in Rome she was eventually " confined to the two functions of sover- eignty and fecundity " ( I , 300 ) . Gail Kern Paster reminds us that when we first see the three ladies together in I ...
... mother , warrior and purification - although in Rome she was eventually " confined to the two functions of sover- eignty and fecundity " ( I , 300 ) . Gail Kern Paster reminds us that when we first see the three ladies together in I ...
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... mother ( not his own mother , admittedly , but a pregnant woman who is the mother of his children ) , were exactly the crimes for which Hecate's companions the Erinyes , who personified the pangs of conscience , hounded transgressors ...
... mother ( not his own mother , admittedly , but a pregnant woman who is the mother of his children ) , were exactly the crimes for which Hecate's companions the Erinyes , who personified the pangs of conscience , hounded transgressors ...
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