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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... women charac- ters , who commonly display great intelligence , vitali- ty , and a strong sense of personal independence . These qualities have led some critics to herald Shakespeare as a ... Women Women in Shakespeare Introduction Overviews.
... women charac- ters , who commonly display great intelligence , vitali- ty , and a strong sense of personal independence . These qualities have led some critics to herald Shakespeare as a ... Women Women in Shakespeare Introduction Overviews.
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... women . Berowne's words about Rosaline and Ham- let's about Gertrude provide the main evidence for thinking of these women as excessively lustful , and the men's descriptions are frequently uncritically ac- cepted by audiences . Even in ...
... women . Berowne's words about Rosaline and Ham- let's about Gertrude provide the main evidence for thinking of these women as excessively lustful , and the men's descriptions are frequently uncritically ac- cepted by audiences . Even in ...
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... woman and queen , the sense that women characters always have to work through essentialised ideas about what it is to be a woman ; the continual complex nego- tiation around biology and behaviour is brought into focus by a single ...
... woman and queen , the sense that women characters always have to work through essentialised ideas about what it is to be a woman ; the continual complex nego- tiation around biology and behaviour is brought into focus by a single ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
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