Shakespearean CriticismMichele Lee 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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... describes this : He presently fell into a deepe consideration of his state , how his prodigall course of life , had wronged his brother , abused his wife , and undone his children . Then was presented before the eyes of his imagination ...
... describes this : He presently fell into a deepe consideration of his state , how his prodigall course of life , had wronged his brother , abused his wife , and undone his children . Then was presented before the eyes of his imagination ...
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... describes the forest to her approaching sons : A barren detested vale you see it is ; The trees , though summer , yet forlorn and lean , Overcome with moss and baleful mistletoe ; Here never shines the sun , here nothing breeds , Unless ...
... describes the forest to her approaching sons : A barren detested vale you see it is ; The trees , though summer , yet forlorn and lean , Overcome with moss and baleful mistletoe ; Here never shines the sun , here nothing breeds , Unless ...
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... describes the " hell of pain and world of charge " Helen has cost : For every false drop in her bawdy veins A Grecian's life hath sunk ; for every scruple Of her contaminated carrion weight A Trojan hath been slain . [ IV . i . 69-72 ] ...
... describes the " hell of pain and world of charge " Helen has cost : For every false drop in her bawdy veins A Grecian's life hath sunk ; for every scruple Of her contaminated carrion weight A Trojan hath been slain . [ IV . i . 69-72 ] ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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