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 255
... reading of " the story that is printed in her blood . " The friar , in opposing these interpretations of what is seen in Hero's face , also emphasizes his authority to speak for the silent Hero : Trust not my reading , nor my ...
... reading of " the story that is printed in her blood . " The friar , in opposing these interpretations of what is seen in Hero's face , also emphasizes his authority to speak for the silent Hero : Trust not my reading , nor my ...
Page 258
... readings of Much Ado quoted at the beginning of this essay participate in the play's drive toward ritual transcendence - a movement invoked and sanctioned by the friar . To resist this movement , as my reading of the play does , is ...
... readings of Much Ado quoted at the beginning of this essay participate in the play's drive toward ritual transcendence - a movement invoked and sanctioned by the friar . To resist this movement , as my reading of the play does , is ...
Page 276
... reading of the play's enactment of female submis- sion , but also suggests that Shakespeare's choice of farce as the genre of the play " reveals his fundamen- tal uneasiness about such roles early in his theatrical career . " ] Whether ...
... reading of the play's enactment of female submis- sion , but also suggests that Shakespeare's choice of farce as the genre of the play " reveals his fundamen- tal uneasiness about such roles early in his theatrical career . " ] Whether ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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