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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Page 193
... senators where they are most vulnerable : " Banish your dotage , banish usury , / That makes the senate ugly ! " ( 99-100 ) . But his espousal of the usury issue at this point smells of opportunism : there is no indication that he has ...
... senators where they are most vulnerable : " Banish your dotage , banish usury , / That makes the senate ugly ! " ( 99-100 ) . But his espousal of the usury issue at this point smells of opportunism : there is no indication that he has ...
Page 226
... Senate claims . Hermia and Lysander were also private persons . But they were in love . There is almost no love in Timon . To Shakespeare the freedom of private virtue had even- tually become the freedom of private vice , and it is this ...
... Senate claims . Hermia and Lysander were also private persons . But they were in love . There is almost no love in Timon . To Shakespeare the freedom of private virtue had even- tually become the freedom of private vice , and it is this ...
Page 230
... Senate is more effective with Alcibiades . The Senate is reduced to pleading , and the Senate pleads well . Alcib- iades comes as a conqueror . He not only calls the city " coward and lascivious " ; he accuses the Senate of arbi- trary ...
... Senate is more effective with Alcibiades . The Senate is reduced to pleading , and the Senate pleads well . Alcib- iades comes as a conqueror . He not only calls the city " coward and lascivious " ; he accuses the Senate of arbi- trary ...
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Shakespeare and Classical Civilization | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 81 |
Timon of Athens | 154 |
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