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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... speech as his primary example of a self- deceiving self - dramatization which he identifies as an Elizabethan adaptation of the original Senecan “ tragic " stance : 4 Soft you ! a word or two before you go . I have done the state some ...
... speech as his primary example of a self- deceiving self - dramatization which he identifies as an Elizabethan adaptation of the original Senecan “ tragic " stance : 4 Soft you ! a word or two before you go . I have done the state some ...
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... speech , which concludes with two couplets ( rare in this play , except of course in the weird sisters ' speeches ) . As if to cast a charm or spell to try to prevent the potentially demoralizing , not to mention lethal , effects of ...
... speech , which concludes with two couplets ( rare in this play , except of course in the weird sisters ' speeches ) . As if to cast a charm or spell to try to prevent the potentially demoralizing , not to mention lethal , effects of ...
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... speech , famous for its " staying power , " history itself is a shaggy dog story , and in that same speech a particular human life is so brief that it seems to lack a narrative or sequential dimension altogether . Both the individual ...
... speech , famous for its " staying power , " history itself is a shaggy dog story , and in that same speech a particular human life is so brief that it seems to lack a narrative or sequential dimension altogether . Both the individual ...
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