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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... society has pinned upon him fit just as well upon society itself , and that it is all merely a matter of perspective . ' Handy - dandy ' , cries the mad Lear , ' which is the justice , which is the thief ? ' Where does real madness lie ...
... society has pinned upon him fit just as well upon society itself , and that it is all merely a matter of perspective . ' Handy - dandy ' , cries the mad Lear , ' which is the justice , which is the thief ? ' Where does real madness lie ...
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... society and therefore his on- tological value , whereas he was at the hierarchical top of symbolic society . The Fool will follow him , as a true fool , but , not belonging to this order , he is free to leave this world to its decay ...
... society and therefore his on- tological value , whereas he was at the hierarchical top of symbolic society . The Fool will follow him , as a true fool , but , not belonging to this order , he is free to leave this world to its decay ...
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... Society 1580-1680 , pp . 70-88 ; Susan Dwyer Amussen , An Ordered Society : Gender and Class in Early Modern England ( Oxford : Basil Blackwell , 1988 ) , pp . 70-6 , 105-8 ; and William and Malleville Haller , ' The Puritan art of love ...
... Society 1580-1680 , pp . 70-88 ; Susan Dwyer Amussen , An Ordered Society : Gender and Class in Early Modern England ( Oxford : Basil Blackwell , 1988 ) , pp . 70-6 , 105-8 ; and William and Malleville Haller , ' The Puritan art of love ...
Contents
Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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