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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... never certain , its wider ramifications often labyrin- thine . Erasmus urged [ in The Education of a Christian Prince ( 1516 ) ] that the prince ' should first question his own right ' and then ' should carefully consider whether it ...
... never certain , its wider ramifications often labyrin- thine . Erasmus urged [ in The Education of a Christian Prince ( 1516 ) ] that the prince ' should first question his own right ' and then ' should carefully consider whether it ...
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... never without some wily Ulisses , never void of some Synon , never to seeke of some deceitfull shifter ? Is it not commonly saide of Grecians that crafte commeth to them by kinde , that they learne to deceive in their cradell ? ( ed ...
... never without some wily Ulisses , never void of some Synon , never to seeke of some deceitfull shifter ? Is it not commonly saide of Grecians that crafte commeth to them by kinde , that they learne to deceive in their cradell ? ( ed ...
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... never clasp'd , but bred Hadst thou , like us from our first swath , proceeded The sweet degrees that this brief world affords To such as may the passive drugs of it Freely command , thou wouldst have plung'd thyself In general riot ...
... never clasp'd , but bred Hadst thou , like us from our first swath , proceeded The sweet degrees that this brief world affords To such as may the passive drugs of it Freely command , thou wouldst have plung'd thyself In general riot ...
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Shakespeare and Classical Civilization | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 81 |
Timon of Athens | 154 |
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