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 77
... turn in the second part of the play is followed by a down - turn ; for another , the opposite is true . Bradley , commenting on the final scene , takes the former view : ' It is ' , he says , ' as if Shakespeare said to us : " Did you ...
... turn in the second part of the play is followed by a down - turn ; for another , the opposite is true . Bradley , commenting on the final scene , takes the former view : ' It is ' , he says , ' as if Shakespeare said to us : " Did you ...
Page 145
... turn'd , and not a false turn'd true " ( 3.2.90-91 ) . Though the OED glosses this us- age as " a misunderstanding " or " a mistake , " both the legalistic sense , having to do with " a misdemeanor or failure of duty on the part of a ...
... turn'd , and not a false turn'd true " ( 3.2.90-91 ) . Though the OED glosses this us- age as " a misunderstanding " or " a mistake , " both the legalistic sense , having to do with " a misdemeanor or failure of duty on the part of a ...
Page 344
... Turn , hell - hound , turn ' , Macbeth replies in words that are entirely Shakespeare's , for there is no authority for them in Holinshed , Of all men else I have avoided thee . But get thee back ; my soul is too much charg'd With blood ...
... Turn , hell - hound , turn ' , Macbeth replies in words that are entirely Shakespeare's , for there is no authority for them in Holinshed , Of all men else I have avoided thee . But get thee back ; my soul is too much charg'd With blood ...
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