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 199
... wooing for him . And here it appears we have yet another motive which one would find alien to the spirit of romantic comedy . But there is wooing enough in the play , though of a special sort , in the love affair of Benedick and ...
... wooing for him . And here it appears we have yet another motive which one would find alien to the spirit of romantic comedy . But there is wooing enough in the play , though of a special sort , in the love affair of Benedick and ...
Page 322
... wooing of Kate moves away from Italianate neo - classical comedy and evolves into a more vigorous and original adaptation of native oral tales of ' wife - taming ' . The Quarto , by contrast , sustains the Induction frame throughout and ...
... wooing of Kate moves away from Italianate neo - classical comedy and evolves into a more vigorous and original adaptation of native oral tales of ' wife - taming ' . The Quarto , by contrast , sustains the Induction frame throughout and ...
Page 336
... wooing that would thoroughly woo her , wed her , and bed her , and rid the house of her . ( I.i.139-42 ) All these remarks share an assumption that a woman and a horse are commodities to be bought and sold . Petruchio's initial offer to ...
... wooing that would thoroughly woo her , wed her , and bed her , and rid the house of her . ( I.i.139-42 ) All these remarks share an assumption that a woman and a horse are commodities to be bought and sold . Petruchio's initial offer to ...
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