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 165
... less , and that is how an impression of Cordelia is at a loss for ordinary studied consistency : she baffles the summer- up by her unselfconsciousness , even in the matter of her appearance in joy and grief . ) But the use of po- etic ...
... less , and that is how an impression of Cordelia is at a loss for ordinary studied consistency : she baffles the summer- up by her unselfconsciousness , even in the matter of her appearance in joy and grief . ) But the use of po- etic ...
Page 263
... less self - consciously so , than Love's Labour's Lost . Katherina's final appeal for feminine obedience is noticeably less explicitly Christian than its counterpart in the old play of The Taming of a Shrew from which Shakespeare's play ...
... less self - consciously so , than Love's Labour's Lost . Katherina's final appeal for feminine obedience is noticeably less explicitly Christian than its counterpart in the old play of The Taming of a Shrew from which Shakespeare's play ...
Page 279
... less automatic , and thus perhaps less offen- sive , than that in the bad quarto . Whoever assembled A Shrew articulates an antifeminism that equates wom- an with sin . She is not merely a potential cause of trouble for man , but the ...
... less automatic , and thus perhaps less offen- sive , than that in the bad quarto . Whoever assembled A Shrew articulates an antifeminism that equates wom- an with sin . She is not merely a potential cause of trouble for man , but the ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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