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 148
... figure who prefigures later , greater tragic figures such as Hamlet and Macbeth . The most emotionally exposed and complex figure in the play is rendered opaquely here . With a blazing page of historical conflict thus largely reduced ...
... figure who prefigures later , greater tragic figures such as Hamlet and Macbeth . The most emotionally exposed and complex figure in the play is rendered opaquely here . With a blazing page of historical conflict thus largely reduced ...
Page 348
... figure 22 : 339 ; 71 : 287 objectification of 43 : 329 ; 59 : 323 ; 65 : 290 as sympathetic figure 3 : 557 , 560 , 604 , 609 ; 18 : 284 , 423 ; 22 : 58 ; 27 : 396 , 400 ; 43 : 305 ; 59 : 234 , 245 ; 71 : 236 as a Trojan 59 : 257 ...
... figure 22 : 339 ; 71 : 287 objectification of 43 : 329 ; 59 : 323 ; 65 : 290 as sympathetic figure 3 : 557 , 560 , 604 , 609 ; 18 : 284 , 423 ; 22 : 58 ; 27 : 396 , 400 ; 43 : 305 ; 59 : 234 , 245 ; 71 : 236 as a Trojan 59 : 257 ...
Page 350
... figure 49 : 186 as usurper 49 : 116 , 137 Richard II Bolingbroke and Richard as opposites 24 : 423 Bolingbroke - Mowbray dispute 22 : 137 comic elements 28 : 134 guilt 24 : 423 ; 39 : 279 language and imagery 6 : 310 , 315 , 331 , 347 ...
... figure 49 : 186 as usurper 49 : 116 , 137 Richard II Bolingbroke and Richard as opposites 24 : 423 Bolingbroke - Mowbray dispute 22 : 137 comic elements 28 : 134 guilt 24 : 423 ; 39 : 279 language and imagery 6 : 310 , 315 , 331 , 347 ...
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