Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 20Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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Page 407
... audience . The play achieves dramatic extension by actively engaging the audience from the start in what G. Wilson Knight once described as " a wrestling of destruction with creation " [ The Imperi- al Theme , 1953 ] . By means of a ...
... audience . The play achieves dramatic extension by actively engaging the audience from the start in what G. Wilson Knight once described as " a wrestling of destruction with creation " [ The Imperi- al Theme , 1953 ] . By means of a ...
Page 408
... audience of the reality of Banquo's ghost , to make the audience perceptually inti- mate with Macbeth at the precise moment when he be- comes perceptually estranged from his only confidante , Lady Macbeth . Unlike the audience , Lady ...
... audience of the reality of Banquo's ghost , to make the audience perceptually inti- mate with Macbeth at the precise moment when he be- comes perceptually estranged from his only confidante , Lady Macbeth . Unlike the audience , Lady ...
Page 412
... audience response in the ar- tistically more mature Macbeth is , of course , far less obvi- ously programmatic than it is in Richard III . Macbeth doesn't capture his audience through sheer intellectual wizardry and performative guile ...
... audience response in the ar- tistically more mature Macbeth is , of course , far less obvi- ously programmatic than it is in Richard III . Macbeth doesn't capture his audience through sheer intellectual wizardry and performative guile ...
Contents
List of Plays and Poems | xv |
Macbeth 1 | xx |
Timon of Athens | 425 |
Copyright | |
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