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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... Henry would have achieved an understanding between the warlike factions of Lancaster and York ' ( Goddard , 31 ) . ' Among other things , this ignores the difficulties of Henry's minority kingship , his wilful and politically disastrous ...
... Henry would have achieved an understanding between the warlike factions of Lancaster and York ' ( Goddard , 31 ) . ' Among other things , this ignores the difficulties of Henry's minority kingship , his wilful and politically disastrous ...
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... Henry as static , and both cited his soliloquy at the battle of Towton ( 2.5 ) to make their point ( Turner , ' Characterization ' , 257 ; Rabkin , 250 ) . Larry Champion argued in contrast not only that Henry's character develops in 3 ...
... Henry as static , and both cited his soliloquy at the battle of Towton ( 2.5 ) to make their point ( Turner , ' Characterization ' , 257 ; Rabkin , 250 ) . Larry Champion argued in contrast not only that Henry's character develops in 3 ...
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... Henry's king- ship : And Henry , hadst thou swayed as kings should do , Or as thy father and his father did , Giving no ground unto the house of York , They never then had sprung like summer flies ; I and ten thousand in this luckless ...
... Henry's king- ship : And Henry , hadst thou swayed as kings should do , Or as thy father and his father did , Giving no ground unto the house of York , They never then had sprung like summer flies ; I and ten thousand in this luckless ...
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