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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... contrast with the gradual dissolution of Anthony's iden- tity , Cleopatra acquires a sense of wholeness by the end ... contrasts between Rome and Egypt ; and ( b ) of a series of parallels between Antony and Cleopatra . " ] ' The events ...
... contrast with the gradual dissolution of Anthony's iden- tity , Cleopatra acquires a sense of wholeness by the end ... contrasts between Rome and Egypt ; and ( b ) of a series of parallels between Antony and Cleopatra . " ] ' The events ...
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... contrast of Antony's behaviour with that of Demetrius , in his ' Comparison of Demetrius with Antonius ' [ in his Lives ] : ' They were both in their pros- peritie very riotously and licentiously given : but yet no man can euer say ...
... contrast of Antony's behaviour with that of Demetrius , in his ' Comparison of Demetrius with Antonius ' [ in his Lives ] : ' They were both in their pros- peritie very riotously and licentiously given : but yet no man can euer say ...
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... contrast with a bitter war and tenuous im- ages of peace ; and in both a young character is broken or disillusioned . Just as Ulysses ' speech on degree or Hec- tor's discussion of the law of nature and of nations sets the " Elizabethan ...
... contrast with a bitter war and tenuous im- ages of peace ; and in both a young character is broken or disillusioned . Just as Ulysses ' speech on degree or Hec- tor's discussion of the law of nature and of nations sets the " Elizabethan ...
Contents
Shakespeare and Classical Civilization | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 81 |
Timon of Athens | 154 |
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