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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... structure as well as the " comic " structure of the final scene . The characters , Cleopatra above all , who assert their triumph in the face of the continuing society , the supposed winners , the new order , are claiming that they are ...
... structure as well as the " comic " structure of the final scene . The characters , Cleopatra above all , who assert their triumph in the face of the continuing society , the supposed winners , the new order , are claiming that they are ...
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... structure , that we find in the history of Timon's own world view . Moreover , the Poet's aim in writing is clearly to get money , and his reap- pearance at the beginning of Act V does less than nothing to reveal any limitations in ...
... structure , that we find in the history of Timon's own world view . Moreover , the Poet's aim in writing is clearly to get money , and his reap- pearance at the beginning of Act V does less than nothing to reveal any limitations in ...
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... structure is older than Christianity ( in spite of the Christian colouring ) and perhaps older than the conscious memory of man . In King Lear the symbolic structure of the play viewed as myth - ritual is defined by the image of the ...
... structure is older than Christianity ( in spite of the Christian colouring ) and perhaps older than the conscious memory of man . In King Lear the symbolic structure of the play viewed as myth - ritual is defined by the image of the ...
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