Shakespearean CriticismJoseph C. Tardiff Presents 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 181
... Robert Speaight , " The Stratford Scene , " in The Tablet , Vol . 215 , No. 6321 , July 15 , 1961 , pp . 677-78 . Robert Speaight ( review date Autumn 1961 ) [ Speaight considers Langham's conception of Much Ado about Nothing as ...
... Robert Speaight , " The Stratford Scene , " in The Tablet , Vol . 215 , No. 6321 , July 15 , 1961 , pp . 677-78 . Robert Speaight ( review date Autumn 1961 ) [ Speaight considers Langham's conception of Much Ado about Nothing as ...
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... Robert Speaight's Ulysses re- ceived the most praise . McCarthy maintained that this Ulysses " spoke the lines extremely well , [ and ] became a new character to me . The spirit of disintegrating con- tempt which before had seemed to ...
... Robert Speaight's Ulysses re- ceived the most praise . McCarthy maintained that this Ulysses " spoke the lines extremely well , [ and ] became a new character to me . The spirit of disintegrating con- tempt which before had seemed to ...
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... Robert Speaight , Shakespeare on the Stage ; Brien ] . The set simply but shrewdly underscored the play's concerns with the shiftingness of human values and human relationships . It also emphasized the spiritual waste land that made ...
... Robert Speaight , Shakespeare on the Stage ; Brien ] . The set simply but shrewdly underscored the play's concerns with the shiftingness of human values and human relationships . It also emphasized the spiritual waste land that made ...
Contents
The Merry Wives of Windsor | 1 |
Reviews and Retrospective Accounts of Selected Productions | 275 |
Selected Studies of Shakespearean Productions | 459 |
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