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 114
... wants his children to experience the anxiety of a competition for his bounty without having to endure any of the actual consequences of such a competition ; he wants , that is , to produce in them something like the effect of a work of ...
... wants his children to experience the anxiety of a competition for his bounty without having to endure any of the actual consequences of such a competition ; he wants , that is , to produce in them something like the effect of a work of ...
Page 157
... wants exactly what a bribe can buy : ( 1 ) false love ; and ( 2 ) a public expression of love . That is : he wants something he does not have to return in kind , something which a division of his prop- erty fully pays for . And he wants ...
... wants exactly what a bribe can buy : ( 1 ) false love ; and ( 2 ) a public expression of love . That is : he wants something he does not have to return in kind , something which a division of his prop- erty fully pays for . And he wants ...
Page 158
... want , it will avoid the expression of love , keep it secret . She is his joy ; she knows it and he knows it . Surely ... wants to give , but forcing her to help him betray ( or not to betray ) it , to falsify it pub- licly . ( Lear's ...
... want , it will avoid the expression of love , keep it secret . She is his joy ; she knows it and he knows it . Surely ... wants to give , but forcing her to help him betray ( or not to betray ) it , to falsify it pub- licly . ( Lear's ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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