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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Page 100
... fact that it is arguably the only occasion in contemporary revenge tragedy when the act of vengeful killing does not in- duce some measure of revulsion . Hamlet and Lucrece are given intolerable predicaments and nearly thankless tasks ...
... fact that it is arguably the only occasion in contemporary revenge tragedy when the act of vengeful killing does not in- duce some measure of revulsion . Hamlet and Lucrece are given intolerable predicaments and nearly thankless tasks ...
Page 136
... fact that they are written is what proves that Shakespeare's " Will " is different from " I am . " It is , of course , an altogether contingent fact that Shake- speare's name was " William , " and I do not mean to argue that if ...
... fact that they are written is what proves that Shakespeare's " Will " is different from " I am . " It is , of course , an altogether contingent fact that Shake- speare's name was " William , " and I do not mean to argue that if ...
Page 167
... fact , the argument practically makes itself . 4 Under reifying criticism , I include the work of Eagle- ton and Castle , and of Warner inasmuch as he anti- thetically reifies a free text and a fixed world of socio- legal fact . In ...
... fact , the argument practically makes itself . 4 Under reifying criticism , I include the work of Eagle- ton and Castle , and of Warner inasmuch as he anti- thetically reifies a free text and a fixed world of socio- legal fact . In ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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