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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... critics the appropri- ately female behavior of the chaste , obedient , and , above all , silent Virgilia appears to redeem her from any hint of complicity in the death of Coriolanus . Still , she walks first in the procession to beg ...
... critics the appropri- ately female behavior of the chaste , obedient , and , above all , silent Virgilia appears to redeem her from any hint of complicity in the death of Coriolanus . Still , she walks first in the procession to beg ...
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... critics appear to have accepted the play's shrew- taming premise at face value . In fact , during this pe- riod the play was presented primarily in heavily adapt- ed versions that frequently accentuated the element of violence in ...
... critics appear to have accepted the play's shrew- taming premise at face value . In fact , during this pe- riod the play was presented primarily in heavily adapt- ed versions that frequently accentuated the element of violence in ...
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... critics argued , the play underlines the artificiality of conventionally " feminine " behavior . Some critics , how- ever , continue to reject an ironic reading of Petruchio's subduing of Katherina . In a 1988 article , for instance ...
... critics argued , the play underlines the artificiality of conventionally " feminine " behavior . Some critics , how- ever , continue to reject an ironic reading of Petruchio's subduing of Katherina . In a 1988 article , for instance ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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