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 212
... response to Volumnia's pleas for the safety of Mother Rome . No longer Mars in the service of Corioles , Coriola- nus is now to Aufidius that son of Mars and Venus , the " boy of tears " or Cupid who runs weeping to his mother when he ...
... response to Volumnia's pleas for the safety of Mother Rome . No longer Mars in the service of Corioles , Coriola- nus is now to Aufidius that son of Mars and Venus , the " boy of tears " or Cupid who runs weeping to his mother when he ...
Page 298
... response sounds fine till probed : ' he that proves the king , / To him will we prove loyal . ' What kind of loyalty is this ? Like ' honour ' in the first act , it is not the real article , but a calculated substitute ; what ought to ...
... response sounds fine till probed : ' he that proves the king , / To him will we prove loyal . ' What kind of loyalty is this ? Like ' honour ' in the first act , it is not the real article , but a calculated substitute ; what ought to ...
Page 338
... response to the loss of Normandy in 1204 as a way of depriving Frenchmen of their English land ( 25 Edward III , c . 1 ; see Frederick Pollock and E. W. Maitland , The History of English Law , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ...
... response to the loss of Normandy in 1204 as a way of depriving Frenchmen of their English land ( 25 Edward III , c . 1 ; see Frederick Pollock and E. W. Maitland , The History of English Law , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ...
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