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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... role was credibly staged . In both cases Margaret stood out partly because Seale compressed Act 4 , where she does not appear . This meant she ' returned ' relatively quickly before Tewkesbury following her new alliances with Lewis and ...
... role was credibly staged . In both cases Margaret stood out partly because Seale compressed Act 4 , where she does not appear . This meant she ' returned ' relatively quickly before Tewkesbury following her new alliances with Lewis and ...
Page 153
... Role predomi- nates over character , " and the concept of role - playing is surely at the center of Shakespeare's tragedy . II . THE WORLD OF ROME The triumph of history as mechanism in Julius Caesar is the extent to which role ...
... Role predomi- nates over character , " and the concept of role - playing is surely at the center of Shakespeare's tragedy . II . THE WORLD OF ROME The triumph of history as mechanism in Julius Caesar is the extent to which role ...
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... role , especially a female role in an all - male mode of performance such as that of the Greek stage : " The play with castra- tion , " as Froma I. Zeitlin puts it , " is appropriate enough to the inversion of roles , but the ambigu ...
... role , especially a female role in an all - male mode of performance such as that of the Greek stage : " The play with castra- tion , " as Froma I. Zeitlin puts it , " is appropriate enough to the inversion of roles , but the ambigu ...
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