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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... story will probably not appear more dramatic or more incredible than other stories incorpo- rated in Shakespeare's trilogy . And indeed it may not be . But Humphrey's story as Shakespeare presents it has elements of myth and symbol that ...
... story will probably not appear more dramatic or more incredible than other stories incorpo- rated in Shakespeare's trilogy . And indeed it may not be . But Humphrey's story as Shakespeare presents it has elements of myth and symbol that ...
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... story , with special reference to mythic ele- ments , and then to trace the development of the story before Shakespeare . To complete my examination I propose to consider two works published after Henry VI . These , I trust , will serve ...
... story , with special reference to mythic ele- ments , and then to trace the development of the story before Shakespeare . To complete my examination I propose to consider two works published after Henry VI . These , I trust , will serve ...
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... story captured the imagination of writ- ers for years and years after his death . The treatment Shakespeare gives the story in 1 and 2 Henry VI testifies to the steady growth of the myth in the century and a half after Humphrey's death ...
... story captured the imagination of writ- ers for years and years after his death . The treatment Shakespeare gives the story in 1 and 2 Henry VI testifies to the steady growth of the myth in the century and a half after Humphrey's death ...
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