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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... performance of cross - dressing can be disruptive , Butler argues , to the extent it " reflects the mundane impersonations by which heterosexually ideal genders are performed " ( 231 ) or " exposes the failure of heterosexual regimes ...
... performance of cross - dressing can be disruptive , Butler argues , to the extent it " reflects the mundane impersonations by which heterosexually ideal genders are performed " ( 231 ) or " exposes the failure of heterosexual regimes ...
Page 132
... performance , a performance that shows gender to be a part playable by any sex . Critics have struggled recently to determine the degree to which such theatrical gender trouble affected the social fabric of Renaissance England ...
... performance , a performance that shows gender to be a part playable by any sex . Critics have struggled recently to determine the degree to which such theatrical gender trouble affected the social fabric of Renaissance England ...
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... performance , for me the most immediate is the illusion that performance can accommodate all of my desires at once . This is the lure of performance and , of course , its failure . And yet , like Bottom , I still go for whatever I can ...
... performance , for me the most immediate is the illusion that performance can accommodate all of my desires at once . This is the lure of performance and , of course , its failure . And yet , like Bottom , I still go for whatever I can ...
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