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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... political vision " to an " entire population " or even to an “ entire literate class , " and with the movement from ... political order . To a deeply political age , Machiavelli offered the attraction of shrewd political advice , but he ...
... political vision " to an " entire population " or even to an “ entire literate class , " and with the movement from ... political order . To a deeply political age , Machiavelli offered the attraction of shrewd political advice , but he ...
Page 321
... Political Theater in the English Renaissance ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1975 ) ; for an espe- cially committed later one , see Leonard Tennenhouse , Power on Display : The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres ( New York ...
... Political Theater in the English Renaissance ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1975 ) ; for an espe- cially committed later one , see Leonard Tennenhouse , Power on Display : The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres ( New York ...
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... political maturity before Claudius murdered Old Hamlet and assumed his crown . Thus , whether or not we can eas- ily imagine Polonius holding sway at the court of Old Hamlet , we cannot trace his political and ethical conduct directly ...
... political maturity before Claudius murdered Old Hamlet and assumed his crown . Thus , whether or not we can eas- ily imagine Polonius holding sway at the court of Old Hamlet , we cannot trace his political and ethical conduct directly ...
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