Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 4Laurie Lanzen Harris Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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Page 100
... fact , with the possible exception of the opening , nothing in the whole action reads as so dis- tinctively Shakespearean . The main symbolic structure leading up to the final reconciliation is clear enough , as is its aim of absorbing ...
... fact , with the possible exception of the opening , nothing in the whole action reads as so dis- tinctively Shakespearean . The main symbolic structure leading up to the final reconciliation is clear enough , as is its aim of absorbing ...
Page 510
... fact ; yet the fact is not ignored ( nor its possible meaningfulness left to chance ) , but is constantly given special dramatic life by the language . At the beginning we have not only ' sooty bosom ' and ' black ram ' but the oblique ...
... fact ; yet the fact is not ignored ( nor its possible meaningfulness left to chance ) , but is constantly given special dramatic life by the language . At the beginning we have not only ' sooty bosom ' and ' black ram ' but the oblique ...
Page 523
... fact , . . . the cosmic implications are no less potent in Othello than elsewhere be- cause less obtrusive . Indeed God and nature are the more in- tensively at strife here just because that strife is extraordinarily domesticated . ( pp ...
... fact , . . . the cosmic implications are no less potent in Othello than elsewhere be- cause less obtrusive . Indeed God and nature are the more in- tensively at strife here just because that strife is extraordinarily domesticated . ( pp ...
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action Additional Bibliography Anna Brownell Jameson Antonio appears argues Arviragus audience August Wilhelm Schlegel Bassanio beauty Belarius Belmont bond Britain casket character Christian Cloten comedy comic conflict contends contrast conventions court critics Cymbe Cymbeline Cymbeline's daughter death Desdemona disguise dramatic dream E. K. Chambers Elizabethan emotional essay date excerpt father feeling final give Granville-Barker Gratiano Guiderius Harley Granville-Barker harmony hath Hermann Ulrici human husband Iachimo ideal imagery Imogen irony Jessica Jupiter justice King Lorenzo lovers means Merchant of Venice mercy moral nature Nerissa Othello passion Pisanio play's plot poet Portia Posthumus Posthumus's pound of flesh Queen repentance revenge ring romance sadness seems sense sexual Shake Shakespeare Shylock significance soliloquy soul speare's speech spirit story suggests symbolic thee theme thing thou tragedy tragic trial scene true truth Venetian villain virtue vision wager wife William Hazlitt Winter's Tale words