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 115
... question of the truth value of their judgments never figures in the quarrel . ( We'll never know if the courtier's beard was well cut or not . ) The splendid conclusion of this debate is that the two avoid the Lie Direct , and the ...
... question of the truth value of their judgments never figures in the quarrel . ( We'll never know if the courtier's beard was well cut or not . ) The splendid conclusion of this debate is that the two avoid the Lie Direct , and the ...
Page 184
... question signify ? Again we must seek the unspoken train of thought . Tom is natural man - man prior to the influence of inventions , con- ventions and traditions . Philosophy is the exercise of human reason , challenging all accepted ...
... question signify ? Again we must seek the unspoken train of thought . Tom is natural man - man prior to the influence of inventions , con- ventions and traditions . Philosophy is the exercise of human reason , challenging all accepted ...
Page 197
... questions , emphasizing and complicating them , are the Fool's sardonic and flippant question and exclama- tion , " May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse ? " and " Whoop , Jug ! I love thee " ( I. iv . 244- 245 ) . Obviously ...
... questions , emphasizing and complicating them , are the Fool's sardonic and flippant question and exclama- tion , " May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse ? " and " Whoop , Jug ! I love thee " ( I. iv . 244- 245 ) . Obviously ...
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Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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