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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Page 137
... rhetoric by which the lovers claim for them- selves a greatness surpassing the limitations of the Ro- man world . Antony's and Cleopatra's dialogue in the opening scene implies the inadequacy of a merely reck- oning standard because it ...
... rhetoric by which the lovers claim for them- selves a greatness surpassing the limitations of the Ro- man world . Antony's and Cleopatra's dialogue in the opening scene implies the inadequacy of a merely reck- oning standard because it ...
Page 323
... rhetoric that were at the heart of Elizabethan education , it was also possible that drama would perish beneath the burden of the loan . Much dra- ma did in fact succumb : Gorboduc , for instance , although Philip Sidney ( since he was ...
... rhetoric that were at the heart of Elizabethan education , it was also possible that drama would perish beneath the burden of the loan . Much dra- ma did in fact succumb : Gorboduc , for instance , although Philip Sidney ( since he was ...
Page 330
... rhetoric and early English theater conditions , in which the rhetoric transforms the stage , props and actors in symbol- ic tableaux , and the staging gives theatrical significance to the poet's rhetoric . Yet ten or fifteen years later ...
... rhetoric and early English theater conditions , in which the rhetoric transforms the stage , props and actors in symbol- ic tableaux , and the staging gives theatrical significance to the poet's rhetoric . Yet ten or fifteen years later ...
Contents
Shakespeare and Classical Civilization | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 81 |
Timon of Athens | 154 |
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