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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... example , that Shakespeare picked up two references to the fact that Hercules was Antony's sup- posed ancestor- " He had a goodly thick beard , a broad forehead , crook - nosed : and there appeared such a manly look in his countenance ...
... example , that Shakespeare picked up two references to the fact that Hercules was Antony's sup- posed ancestor- " He had a goodly thick beard , a broad forehead , crook - nosed : and there appeared such a manly look in his countenance ...
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... example of the type . Biographical information was available in the histories themselves and in the works of Plutarch and Suetonius . A popular form of pseudobiography was the collecting of wise men's sayings . This subgenre of " dictes ...
... example of the type . Biographical information was available in the histories themselves and in the works of Plutarch and Suetonius . A popular form of pseudobiography was the collecting of wise men's sayings . This subgenre of " dictes ...
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... example , Cassius evokes a well - known Vergilian scene in order to denigrate Caesar : I , as Aeneas , our great ancestor , Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear , so from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired ...
... example , Cassius evokes a well - known Vergilian scene in order to denigrate Caesar : I , as Aeneas , our great ancestor , Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear , so from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired ...
Contents
Shakespeare and Classical Civilization | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 81 |
Timon of Athens | 154 |
Copyright | |
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