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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... moral truth of the text . The tradition goes back at least to Coleridge , who was relaxed about the identification of Venus with lust , arguing that although the poem was about concupiscence , it was not morally dangerous because ...
... moral truth of the text . The tradition goes back at least to Coleridge , who was relaxed about the identification of Venus with lust , arguing that although the poem was about concupiscence , it was not morally dangerous because ...
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... morality . What philology records , it cannot be too strongly stressed , is not a fall from a merry Middle Ages , when sexual desire was innocent and the body and its plea- sures beyond the range of moral judgment . On the contrary , in ...
... morality . What philology records , it cannot be too strongly stressed , is not a fall from a merry Middle Ages , when sexual desire was innocent and the body and its plea- sures beyond the range of moral judgment . On the contrary , in ...
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... Moral Artistry [ 1947 ] ( New York : Harper & Brothers , 1961 ) , is a sterner proponent of this moral argument : “ Evi- dently , Shakespeare was not too well pleased with his people in Love's Labour's Lost . He puts them on a year's ...
... Moral Artistry [ 1947 ] ( New York : Harper & Brothers , 1961 ) , is a sterner proponent of this moral argument : “ Evi- dently , Shakespeare was not too well pleased with his people in Love's Labour's Lost . He puts them on a year's ...
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