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 33
... daughter is accused of lechery , of hypocrisy , the response is even more awful . The fathers of Hero and of Desdemona must listen as their daughters- seemingly so chaste , so perfect - are described in an- imalistic sexual terms : lago ...
... daughter is accused of lechery , of hypocrisy , the response is even more awful . The fathers of Hero and of Desdemona must listen as their daughters- seemingly so chaste , so perfect - are described in an- imalistic sexual terms : lago ...
Page 99
... daughters ' declarations of devo- tion . Looked at in the context of contemporary behaviour , Lear's solution for his kingdom was in line with mod- ern aristocratic treatment of daughters , by which the strongly paternalist father ...
... daughters ' declarations of devo- tion . Looked at in the context of contemporary behaviour , Lear's solution for his kingdom was in line with mod- ern aristocratic treatment of daughters , by which the strongly paternalist father ...
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... daughters are un- grateful , but that they are in the fullest physiological sense women . And not all of this discovery will come from any change in the behavior of the daughters ; it will be the emergence of an aspect of himself which ...
... daughters are un- grateful , but that they are in the fullest physiological sense women . And not all of this discovery will come from any change in the behavior of the daughters ; it will be the emergence of an aspect of himself which ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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