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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... lines and that of Pompey in Measure for Measure ranks sixth with 185 lines . Parolles , who becomes LaFeu's fool at the end of All's Well , has the second part in the play with 415 lines . McManaway dates All's Well , as 1603-1604 , and ...
... lines and that of Pompey in Measure for Measure ranks sixth with 185 lines . Parolles , who becomes LaFeu's fool at the end of All's Well , has the second part in the play with 415 lines . McManaway dates All's Well , as 1603-1604 , and ...
Page 184
... lines , for he has mistaken him for a philosopher . Why ? And what does his question signify ? Again we must seek ... lines , which simply baffle them . But if King Lear is a play about Lear's mind and soul , as everyone has to admit , a ...
... lines , for he has mistaken him for a philosopher . Why ? And what does his question signify ? Again we must seek ... lines , which simply baffle them . But if King Lear is a play about Lear's mind and soul , as everyone has to admit , a ...
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... lines , " If music be the food of love , play on " ( 15 ) , continuing with abbreviated material from that first ... lines and 13.2 percent of the words ; Olivia has 12.7 percent of the speeches , 12.0 percent of the lines and 11.8 per ...
... lines , " If music be the food of love , play on " ( 15 ) , continuing with abbreviated material from that first ... lines and 13.2 percent of the words ; Olivia has 12.7 percent of the speeches , 12.0 percent of the lines and 11.8 per ...
Contents
Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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