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 348
... story took on changes in its transmission down through Henryson , with whose poem it was bound up in the version many Eliza- bethans read , it still kept there the sense of great story : the climax - here , Troilus's only - half ...
... story took on changes in its transmission down through Henryson , with whose poem it was bound up in the version many Eliza- bethans read , it still kept there the sense of great story : the climax - here , Troilus's only - half ...
Page 378
... stories in order to suggest a mutual commentary ; and he subjects each story to changes that modify still further the classical and me- dieval versions available to him . An analysis of those changes reveals certain strategic and ...
... stories in order to suggest a mutual commentary ; and he subjects each story to changes that modify still further the classical and me- dieval versions available to him . An analysis of those changes reveals certain strategic and ...
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... story . In terms of an ending that story takes the break - up of the famous love affair . In Chaucer it has endured for three happy years before Criseyde is sent over to the Greeks ; in Shakespeare for one night only . Chaucer refers in ...
... story . In terms of an ending that story takes the break - up of the famous love affair . In Chaucer it has endured for three happy years before Criseyde is sent over to the Greeks ; in Shakespeare for one night only . Chaucer refers in ...
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Shakespeare and Classical Civilization | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 81 |
Timon of Athens | 154 |
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