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 36
... conventional at- tributes ; defined in terms of the associations drawn from the misogynistic or hagiographic conventional wisdom about the woman question . At the same time his ' real characters ' present us with such individual- ised ...
... conventional at- tributes ; defined in terms of the associations drawn from the misogynistic or hagiographic conventional wisdom about the woman question . At the same time his ' real characters ' present us with such individual- ised ...
Page 65
... conventional assump- tions of vivacity , skill , and subordination to an adult male player which are made about Shakespeare's boy- actresses . III A reading of As You Like It , however , forces a recon- sideration of this conception of ...
... conventional assump- tions of vivacity , skill , and subordination to an adult male player which are made about Shakespeare's boy- actresses . III A reading of As You Like It , however , forces a recon- sideration of this conception of ...
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... conventional behavior continues with Petruchio's wild manner during the ceremony . Gremio reports that the groom's swearing so shocked the priest that he dropped his prayerbook and that Petruchio " took him such a cuff " when the ...
... conventional behavior continues with Petruchio's wild manner during the ceremony . Gremio reports that the groom's swearing so shocked the priest that he dropped his prayerbook and that Petruchio " took him such a cuff " when the ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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