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 115
... Shakes- peare's play with this uneasiness without specifying the practical measures that medieval and early mod- ern fathers undertook to protect themselves when re- tirement , always frowned upon , could not be avoid- ed . Such ...
... Shakes- peare's play with this uneasiness without specifying the practical measures that medieval and early mod- ern fathers undertook to protect themselves when re- tirement , always frowned upon , could not be avoid- ed . Such ...
Page 124
... Shakes- peare divides experience into male ( evil ) and female ( good ) principles and his comedies and tragedies are interpreted as ' either a synthesis of the principles or an examination of the kinds of worlds that result when one or ...
... Shakes- peare divides experience into male ( evil ) and female ( good ) principles and his comedies and tragedies are interpreted as ' either a synthesis of the principles or an examination of the kinds of worlds that result when one or ...
Page 209
... Shakes- pearean romantic comedy . For here the inner develop- ment of the lovers , especially Benedick and Beatrice , is made much more explicit than in both earlier as well as later romantic comedies . In Love's Labour's Lost , for ...
... Shakes- pearean romantic comedy . For here the inner develop- ment of the lovers , especially Benedick and Beatrice , is made much more explicit than in both earlier as well as later romantic comedies . In Love's Labour's Lost , for ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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