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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... Elizabethan actor could be . Certainly Professor Baker , by directing students to contemporary testimony , is more illuminating than is Mr. Ronald Watkins , when , in an attempt to be helpful , he remarks [ in On Producing Shakespeare ...
... Elizabethan actor could be . Certainly Professor Baker , by directing students to contemporary testimony , is more illuminating than is Mr. Ronald Watkins , when , in an attempt to be helpful , he remarks [ in On Producing Shakespeare ...
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... Elizabethan boy - actresses ' voices were poor , or that they habitually acted women's roles once their voices had broken . Hamlet and the players threatened by the Closing of the Theatres knew the value of a boy - actress's voice ...
... Elizabethan boy - actresses ' voices were poor , or that they habitually acted women's roles once their voices had broken . Hamlet and the players threatened by the Closing of the Theatres knew the value of a boy - actress's voice ...
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... Elizabethan social , economic , and cultural context . In a 1983 essay , Marion D. Perret analyzed the actions of Katherina and Petruchio in terms of Elizabethan " conduct books " that defined the proper relationship and the respective ...
... Elizabethan social , economic , and cultural context . In a 1983 essay , Marion D. Perret analyzed the actions of Katherina and Petruchio in terms of Elizabethan " conduct books " that defined the proper relationship and the respective ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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