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 271
... Kate gains legitimacy as Kate willingly and even lov- ingly performs in front of an audience whatever Petru- chio tells her to do or say . Thus , modern critics have been right to see that the primary aim of Petruchio's is not to curb ...
... Kate gains legitimacy as Kate willingly and even lov- ingly performs in front of an audience whatever Petru- chio tells her to do or say . Thus , modern critics have been right to see that the primary aim of Petruchio's is not to curb ...
Page 273
... Kate's final speech in defense of patriarchy , Bianca and the widow are silent . Men alone celebrate Kate's reformation . The comic form of the Shrew is essentially ideologi- cal . Closure occurs when coercion has apparently been ...
... Kate's final speech in defense of patriarchy , Bianca and the widow are silent . Men alone celebrate Kate's reformation . The comic form of the Shrew is essentially ideologi- cal . Closure occurs when coercion has apparently been ...
Page 344
... Kate in superior understanding " knows " it to be otherwise . Petruchio appears to believe that if Kate will imitate him in calling the sun " moon , " it will " be " the object named . In frustration , Kate " vows " that it " be so ...
... Kate in superior understanding " knows " it to be otherwise . Petruchio appears to believe that if Kate will imitate him in calling the sun " moon , " it will " be " the object named . In frustration , Kate " vows " that it " be so ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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