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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... bringing his high - spirited farce to an end ; but know- ing where his career is to lead him , we can see that here at the very beginning , he is somehow drawn to bring to light matters that will engage his mind and his capacious ...
... bringing his high - spirited farce to an end ; but know- ing where his career is to lead him , we can see that here at the very beginning , he is somehow drawn to bring to light matters that will engage his mind and his capacious ...
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... bring forward , but after that point new conceptions are being brought before us . Throughout the play , the idea that the ties of kinship and love are one , that they are the ties of nature itself , is at the very heart of Lear's ...
... bring forward , but after that point new conceptions are being brought before us . Throughout the play , the idea that the ties of kinship and love are one , that they are the ties of nature itself , is at the very heart of Lear's ...
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... bring into view is more or less ap- palling than the knowledge the ancients accepted as a matter of course . I think it is less . Whether this is a sign of wisdom or of its failure , each of us can try to deter- mine for himself ...
... bring into view is more or less ap- palling than the knowledge the ancients accepted as a matter of course . I think it is less . Whether this is a sign of wisdom or of its failure , each of us can try to deter- mine for himself ...
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Shakespeare and Classical Civilization | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 81 |
Timon of Athens | 154 |
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