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 187
... relationship to Elizabethan culture and issues pertaining to its genre and structure . Examining Twelfth Night as an example of festive comedy , Elias Schwartz ( 1967 ) contends that the play's merriment and celebratory atmosphere ...
... relationship to Elizabethan culture and issues pertaining to its genre and structure . Examining Twelfth Night as an example of festive comedy , Elias Schwartz ( 1967 ) contends that the play's merriment and celebratory atmosphere ...
Page 228
... relationship to Orsino became the radical flaw in the play . Nunn takes a distinctively cinematic approach to the " problem , " which he frames specifically in terms of theater : " the biggest problem of the play in stage performance is ...
... relationship to Orsino became the radical flaw in the play . Nunn takes a distinctively cinematic approach to the " problem , " which he frames specifically in terms of theater : " the biggest problem of the play in stage performance is ...
Page 234
... relationship with Olivia beyond the two brief encounters they have before their marriage in the Folio text . In this way , the striking fragmentations and rearrangements of the play's text in Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night not only answer ...
... relationship with Olivia beyond the two brief encounters they have before their marriage in the Folio text . In this way , the striking fragmentations and rearrangements of the play's text in Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night not only answer ...
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