Shakespearean CriticismThis detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Beginning with Vol. 60, the series replaced its annual compilation of essays representing the year's most noteworthy Shakespearean scholarship with topic entries, comprised of essays that analyze various topics or themes found Shakespeare's works. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Each volume includes a cumulative character index, a topic index and a topic index arranged by play title. - Publisher. |
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... Venice's collective sense of what constitutes insider and outsider status is similarly , though more dramatically , challenged : Venice sends Othello , a Moor , to Cyprus as its commissioned representative in op- posing its dangerous ...
... Venice's collective sense of what constitutes insider and outsider status is similarly , though more dramatically , challenged : Venice sends Othello , a Moor , to Cyprus as its commissioned representative in op- posing its dangerous ...
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... Venice , Othello is being asked to oppose the very thing against which Venice defines itself most obviously . He must be Venice abroad , upholding its values in the face of its op- posite . We may assume that Shakespeare's depiction of ...
... Venice , Othello is being asked to oppose the very thing against which Venice defines itself most obviously . He must be Venice abroad , upholding its values in the face of its op- posite . We may assume that Shakespeare's depiction of ...
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... Venice with the line , ' Enamour'd like . Narcissus thou shalt dye ' . Renaissance England perceived Venice as a place whose image had been constructed partly to gratify its desire to think well of itself . Parker's Venice , like ...
... Venice with the line , ' Enamour'd like . Narcissus thou shalt dye ' . Renaissance England perceived Venice as a place whose image had been constructed partly to gratify its desire to think well of itself . Parker's Venice , like ...
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King John | 1 |
Character Studies | 38 |
Production Reviews | 62 |
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