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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... present . Caught up in the whirl of events , the audience shares the characters ' uncertainties as they find themselves lost together in a " thorny wood " of ideological confusion and confused plot . In King John Shakespeare abandons ...
... present . Caught up in the whirl of events , the audience shares the characters ' uncertainties as they find themselves lost together in a " thorny wood " of ideological confusion and confused plot . In King John Shakespeare abandons ...
Page 360
... present ) , separating those " to - morrows " from the last dimension of time to be mentioned , " all our yesterdays . " The speech features both a regressive , inverted sequence ( " To - morrow . . . to day . . . yesterdays ” ) , as ...
... present ) , separating those " to - morrows " from the last dimension of time to be mentioned , " all our yesterdays . " The speech features both a regressive , inverted sequence ( " To - morrow . . . to day . . . yesterdays ” ) , as ...
Page 367
... present tense . Projecting oneself beyond an imaginary terminus promises to allow one to see like the " divinity that shapes our ends " ( 5.2.10 ) . Like so much else in Hamlet , apocalyptic thinking is a way of going backward , a means ...
... present tense . Projecting oneself beyond an imaginary terminus promises to allow one to see like the " divinity that shapes our ends " ( 5.2.10 ) . Like so much else in Hamlet , apocalyptic thinking is a way of going backward , a means ...
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