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 244
... force operating upon men's minds to shape their experience ( as Descartes ' passive acceptance of that force is the only way to self - knowledge ) , but rather reason is self - knowledge , which comes through a dis- paragement of the ...
... force operating upon men's minds to shape their experience ( as Descartes ' passive acceptance of that force is the only way to self - knowledge ) , but rather reason is self - knowledge , which comes through a dis- paragement of the ...
Page 271
... force ( or the threat of force ) and imaginative play , his inter- ests in contests , are all in the service of a new kind of patriarchal authority grounded not in an abstract and unchanging ideology of the wife's absolute and un ...
... force ( or the threat of force ) and imaginative play , his inter- ests in contests , are all in the service of a new kind of patriarchal authority grounded not in an abstract and unchanging ideology of the wife's absolute and un ...
Page 275
... forces the comic resolution . Only in the so - called " mature " comedies are the resolutions fully harmoni- ous ... force of my reading of the Shrew is not simply to suggest that every Shakespearean comedy is a problem comedy ; it ...
... forces the comic resolution . Only in the so - called " mature " comedies are the resolutions fully harmoni- ous ... force of my reading of the Shrew is not simply to suggest that every Shakespearean comedy is a problem comedy ; it ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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