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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... live , trust that is inexpugnable and that appears to be founded in truth , in the soul's truth . In short , the trust , the glorious supposition , the thought of justice , is part vision . When Hamlet dies , asking Horatio to tell the ...
... live , trust that is inexpugnable and that appears to be founded in truth , in the soul's truth . In short , the trust , the glorious supposition , the thought of justice , is part vision . When Hamlet dies , asking Horatio to tell the ...
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... Lives are , of course , not histories , but their concentration on the ethical con- tent of individual careers by no means repeats the Tudor praise of noble captains or ancient models of chivalry . Bodin certainly thought Plutarch too ...
... Lives are , of course , not histories , but their concentration on the ethical con- tent of individual careers by no means repeats the Tudor praise of noble captains or ancient models of chivalry . Bodin certainly thought Plutarch too ...
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... Live loath'd , and long , Most smiling smooth , detested parasites , Courteous destroyers , affable wolves , meek bears , You fools of fortune , trencher friends , time's flies , Cap - and - knee slaves , vapours , and minute - jacks ...
... Live loath'd , and long , Most smiling smooth , detested parasites , Courteous destroyers , affable wolves , meek bears , You fools of fortune , trencher friends , time's flies , Cap - and - knee slaves , vapours , and minute - jacks ...
Contents
Shakespeare and Classical Civilization | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 81 |
Timon of Athens | 154 |
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