Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 38Gale Research Company, 1998 |
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Page 69
... ideal of love - as- worship , its insistent presence nevertheless exposes the essential sterility of the courtly ideal - its impractical- ity , even impossibility , in view of the fundamental force of the sexual nature to which ...
... ideal of love - as- worship , its insistent presence nevertheless exposes the essential sterility of the courtly ideal - its impractical- ity , even impossibility , in view of the fundamental force of the sexual nature to which ...
Page 188
... ideal beloved , her golden hair loosed to the breeze . Even a skimming of the love poetry of the period will prove the point - Petrarch's Laura and Astrophil's Stella are golden - haired . And an examination of the many quattrocento ...
... ideal beloved , her golden hair loosed to the breeze . Even a skimming of the love poetry of the period will prove the point - Petrarch's Laura and Astrophil's Stella are golden - haired . And an examination of the many quattrocento ...
Page 385
... ideal cherished against mu- tability . With the authority of a long dramatic tradition behind him , Shakespeare celebrates this ideal , in spite of death and disaster , as chorus to a tragic scene . Truth may seeme , but cannot be ...
... ideal cherished against mu- tability . With the authority of a long dramatic tradition behind him , Shakespeare celebrates this ideal , in spite of death and disaster , as chorus to a tragic scene . Truth may seeme , but cannot be ...
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