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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... Roman achieve- ment that the Roman historians had left behind them ; and the principal problem was of fitting the norms of value that this implied into the value - confirming framework of the contemporary world . The very word ' Roman ...
... Roman achieve- ment that the Roman historians had left behind them ; and the principal problem was of fitting the norms of value that this implied into the value - confirming framework of the contemporary world . The very word ' Roman ...
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... Roman ' costume on the Elizabethan stage ; ( 2 ) the Roman praise of suicide as an act of moral courage and nobility , an attitude very different from Christian belief ; and ( 3 ) the common source in North's Plutarch . " If , for the ...
... Roman ' costume on the Elizabethan stage ; ( 2 ) the Roman praise of suicide as an act of moral courage and nobility , an attitude very different from Christian belief ; and ( 3 ) the common source in North's Plutarch . " If , for the ...
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... Roman ways - as so many barbarians really were - through Roman litera- ture , but they have put their understanding to evil and brutal purposes . Still , we cannot say that the Romans are ultimately any more civilized than the Goths and ...
... Roman ways - as so many barbarians really were - through Roman litera- ture , but they have put their understanding to evil and brutal purposes . Still , we cannot say that the Romans are ultimately any more civilized than the Goths and ...
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Shakespeare and Classical Civilization | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 81 |
Timon of Athens | 154 |
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