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 341
... murder Duncan because he reminds her of her father : Had he not resembled My father as he slept , I had done't . ( II.ii. 12-13 ) Lady Macbeth contrasts absolutely with the passive and conventionally timorous Lady Macduff , an innocent ...
... murder Duncan because he reminds her of her father : Had he not resembled My father as he slept , I had done't . ( II.ii. 12-13 ) Lady Macbeth contrasts absolutely with the passive and conventionally timorous Lady Macduff , an innocent ...
Page 344
... murder , the murder of Macduff's ' wife and babes ' , when the play has already intimated many times that children or babes are the only sure guarantee of the future . Macbeth's futile destructiveness is further indicated by the ...
... murder , the murder of Macduff's ' wife and babes ' , when the play has already intimated many times that children or babes are the only sure guarantee of the future . Macbeth's futile destructiveness is further indicated by the ...
Page 361
... murder of the chamberlains : " Who can be wise , amaz'd , temperate and furious , / Loyal and neutral , in a moment ? " ( 2.3.106-07 ) . The character of the subject can be adequately represented only in successive stages . " Together ...
... murder of the chamberlains : " Who can be wise , amaz'd , temperate and furious , / Loyal and neutral , in a moment ? " ( 2.3.106-07 ) . The character of the subject can be adequately represented only in successive stages . " Together ...
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