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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... Plautus . Plautus offered the most engaging of opportunities for learning to master the lan- guage and for becoming acquainted with a strange and wonderful form of drama . At the same time his plays were being produced at the courts of ...
... Plautus . Plautus offered the most engaging of opportunities for learning to master the lan- guage and for becoming acquainted with a strange and wonderful form of drama . At the same time his plays were being produced at the courts of ...
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... Plautus , too , in contriving a play in which each coinci- dence and each mistake is more outrageous than the last will lead his audience to wonder whether sorcerers are not behind it all , but no more than Homer would he ever lead us ...
... Plautus , too , in contriving a play in which each coinci- dence and each mistake is more outrageous than the last will lead his audience to wonder whether sorcerers are not behind it all , but no more than Homer would he ever lead us ...
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... Plautus and the Humanist Tradition . Cambridge : D. S. Brewer , 1990 , 309 p . Analysis of Shakespeare's interest in Plautus and the New Comedy , containing a detailed discussion of The Comedy of Errors . Salingar , Leo . Shakespeare ...
... Plautus and the Humanist Tradition . Cambridge : D. S. Brewer , 1990 , 309 p . Analysis of Shakespeare's interest in Plautus and the New Comedy , containing a detailed discussion of The Comedy of Errors . Salingar , Leo . Shakespeare ...
Contents
Shakespeare and Classical Civilization | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 81 |
Timon of Athens | 154 |
Copyright | |
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