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 64
... seems to echo him when she claims that print , " embodying the principle of breaking down into small units . . . seems an obvious impetus to these new structural habits in literature and music " ( 20 ) . Drawing upon a rich variety of ...
... seems to echo him when she claims that print , " embodying the principle of breaking down into small units . . . seems an obvious impetus to these new structural habits in literature and music " ( 20 ) . Drawing upon a rich variety of ...
Page 115
... seems at first to be hyperbole , but the action indicates that the conspirators are actually " Signed in thy spoil , and crimsoned in thy lethe " ( III.i.207 ) , as Antony tells us . He begins his soliloquy by asking Caesar's pardon ...
... seems at first to be hyperbole , but the action indicates that the conspirators are actually " Signed in thy spoil , and crimsoned in thy lethe " ( III.i.207 ) , as Antony tells us . He begins his soliloquy by asking Caesar's pardon ...
Page 254
... seems to take up all the courtly behavioral ideals of The Courtier , cast once more in a dialectical relationship with comedy as their cultural double . Gonzaga's play , both culturally and geographically , seems to be the closest ...
... seems to take up all the courtly behavioral ideals of The Courtier , cast once more in a dialectical relationship with comedy as their cultural double . Gonzaga's play , both culturally and geographically , seems to be the closest ...
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