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 53
... role . For example , all the actors quite deliberately stepped out of character when they were not required to be an integral part of the spoken or visual action and watched ( in their own ' real ' personalities as it were ) what was ...
... role . For example , all the actors quite deliberately stepped out of character when they were not required to be an integral part of the spoken or visual action and watched ( in their own ' real ' personalities as it were ) what was ...
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... role of the clown seems to Hamlet to provide him with the sought - for position of a punctum indifferens in the midst of the action , but the role is a trap from which he must fight to get out , though he fights in vain . The fool ...
... role of the clown seems to Hamlet to provide him with the sought - for position of a punctum indifferens in the midst of the action , but the role is a trap from which he must fight to get out , though he fights in vain . The fool ...
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... role , so that by the end of a busy scene like act 1 , scene 4 , Lear's exit line about resuming his cast - off shape is presumably glossed by our recollection of the actor - Cordelia's role change rather than serving as a retrospective ...
... role , so that by the end of a busy scene like act 1 , scene 4 , Lear's exit line about resuming his cast - off shape is presumably glossed by our recollection of the actor - Cordelia's role change rather than serving as a retrospective ...
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Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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