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 151
... audience sympathy for characters who , to a greater or lesser degree , have brought their misfortunes on them- selves . Shakespeare seems to ask his audience to under- stand , to empathize - even to forgive . In the later trage- dies ...
... audience sympathy for characters who , to a greater or lesser degree , have brought their misfortunes on them- selves . Shakespeare seems to ask his audience to under- stand , to empathize - even to forgive . In the later trage- dies ...
Page 275
... audience the heavy indebtedness to Ovid . Tamora and all she represents may be eliminated from the public and political voices of Rome , but in the last line she accesses a literary discourse which perforce takes the audience back to ...
... audience the heavy indebtedness to Ovid . Tamora and all she represents may be eliminated from the public and political voices of Rome , but in the last line she accesses a literary discourse which perforce takes the audience back to ...
Page 326
... audience often laughs through many of those tortures that so offend readers - a distant echo perhaps of the amusement that Ben Jonson felt with the play in 1614 . Cruelty and suffering seem to have become as familiar and entertaining to ...
... audience often laughs through many of those tortures that so offend readers - a distant echo perhaps of the amusement that Ben Jonson felt with the play in 1614 . Cruelty and suffering seem to have become as familiar and entertaining to ...
Contents
Shakespeare and Classical Civilization | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 81 |
Timon of Athens | 154 |
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