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 194
... language of Much Ado is marked particularly by the in - joke and double- entendre , never by raucous humor or outright bawdy punning . It is a language that has been appropriated by a privileged group of people , so that they can demon ...
... language of Much Ado is marked particularly by the in - joke and double- entendre , never by raucous humor or outright bawdy punning . It is a language that has been appropriated by a privileged group of people , so that they can demon ...
Page 302
... language is an index of identity . Sly is convinced of his lordly identity by language , by the lord's obsequious words and recital of his false history . Significantly , when he believes himself a lord , his language changes and he ...
... language is an index of identity . Sly is convinced of his lordly identity by language , by the lord's obsequious words and recital of his false history . Significantly , when he believes himself a lord , his language changes and he ...
Page 342
... language . Though surely Petru- chio's skill will confound and transform " Katherine the curst " from shrewish woman to sheepish wife , from witty , aggressive pupil to scholar , when when he " disfigure [ s ] " the " face " of language ...
... language . Though surely Petru- chio's skill will confound and transform " Katherine the curst " from shrewish woman to sheepish wife , from witty , aggressive pupil to scholar , when when he " disfigure [ s ] " the " face " of language ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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