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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... never questions the rightness of the course he has taken . He never questions his ideals , even when they have led to civil war , his own defeat , and the victory of the very tyranny he had originally acted to prevent , a tyranny we never ...
... never questions the rightness of the course he has taken . He never questions his ideals , even when they have led to civil war , his own defeat , and the victory of the very tyranny he had originally acted to prevent , a tyranny we never ...
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... Never , never , never , never , never . ( 5.3.281-4 ) The certainty of her death ; the final , violent , reaction against the apparent injustice of the gods ; the valley of the shadow of despair : Lear's penultimate moments are ...
... Never , never , never , never , never . ( 5.3.281-4 ) The certainty of her death ; the final , violent , reaction against the apparent injustice of the gods ; the valley of the shadow of despair : Lear's penultimate moments are ...
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... never prob- lematized . Indeed , Henry V never even appears on stage , and Henry VII appears only at the very end of Richard III and only as Richmond , not as the ideal king he will become . Both , therefore , exemplify an authority ...
... never prob- lematized . Indeed , Henry V never even appears on stage , and Henry VII appears only at the very end of Richard III and only as Richmond , not as the ideal king he will become . Both , therefore , exemplify an authority ...
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