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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... soul , that great theme of the metaphysical poets . AriƩs suggests that the lower recumbent figure represents the body , and the upper figure the soul , often kneeling and frequently beatific as it anticipates the joy of heaven . " This ...
... soul , that great theme of the metaphysical poets . AriƩs suggests that the lower recumbent figure represents the body , and the upper figure the soul , often kneeling and frequently beatific as it anticipates the joy of heaven . " This ...
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... soul or as portraits of the physical body of the deceased . Some sepulchral portraits may even have been inspired by " the desire of the soul to be re- incarnated into its former body . " In this case , " the effigy is no longer a ...
... soul or as portraits of the physical body of the deceased . Some sepulchral portraits may even have been inspired by " the desire of the soul to be re- incarnated into its former body . " In this case , " the effigy is no longer a ...
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... soul's immortality ( Norman T. Burns , Christian Mortalism from Tyndale to Milton [ Cambridge : Har- vard University ... soul is not buried with our body in the tomb . . . . It is pure waste when men build sumptuous tombs as though they ...
... soul's immortality ( Norman T. Burns , Christian Mortalism from Tyndale to Milton [ Cambridge : Har- vard University ... soul is not buried with our body in the tomb . . . . It is pure waste when men build sumptuous tombs as though they ...
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