Shakespearean CriticismMichael Magoulias Presents 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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... Caesar , though criticism has never done it full justice . Samuel Johnson detected a Roman style , austere and unaffecting , in the play , and for nearly two centuries crit- icism echoed him by calling the play sparse ; not until Wilson ...
... Caesar , though criticism has never done it full justice . Samuel Johnson detected a Roman style , austere and unaffecting , in the play , and for nearly two centuries crit- icism echoed him by calling the play sparse ; not until Wilson ...
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... CAESAR . In the life of Caesar there is no mention Ant- ony's oration , though there is an account of killing Cinna . In none of the three lives is Antony's oration delivered immediately after Brutus ' ; and in none of them is there any ...
... CAESAR . In the life of Caesar there is no mention Ant- ony's oration , though there is an account of killing Cinna . In none of the three lives is Antony's oration delivered immediately after Brutus ' ; and in none of them is there any ...
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... Caesar's world , her vision becomes reality in Caesar's world as well as her own . Caesar , says the guard who finds her dead , has been " beguil'd . " And Caesar is beguiled in two , equally significant , senses . In the first place ...
... Caesar's world , her vision becomes reality in Caesar's world as well as her own . Caesar , says the guard who finds her dead , has been " beguil'd . " And Caesar is beguiled in two , equally significant , senses . In the first place ...
Contents
Shakespeare and Classical Civilization | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 81 |
Timon of Athens | 154 |
Copyright | |
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