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 42
... true " masculinity of an Orlando and the " true " femininity of a Rosalind are merely artificial roles is a large step a step Shakespeare did not take . Noth- ing in Shakespeare suggests that but for a little ar- tificial social ...
... true " masculinity of an Orlando and the " true " femininity of a Rosalind are merely artificial roles is a large step a step Shakespeare did not take . Noth- ing in Shakespeare suggests that but for a little ar- tificial social ...
Page 47
... true within the fictional world of the play . But this is not so clearly the case in the ( roughly ) corresponding episode in Twelfth Night . Orsino is tell- ing Cesario that men's love is more profound than women's : VIOLA Ay , but I ...
... true within the fictional world of the play . But this is not so clearly the case in the ( roughly ) corresponding episode in Twelfth Night . Orsino is tell- ing Cesario that men's love is more profound than women's : VIOLA Ay , but I ...
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... true , yet the way in which he accuses Hero is such that he seems her slanderer . And both the manner and the simple fact of his accusation justify in part Beatrice's vituperation . The same complexity appears in Leonato's response ...
... true , yet the way in which he accuses Hero is such that he seems her slanderer . And both the manner and the simple fact of his accusation justify in part Beatrice's vituperation . The same complexity appears in Leonato's response ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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