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 93
... things easier on the indi- vidual soul while directing attention away from any- thing so alarming as a cult of suicide . But to secure his argument he must make Lucrece pay heavily for her action . Chaucer appears to have understood ...
... things easier on the indi- vidual soul while directing attention away from any- thing so alarming as a cult of suicide . But to secure his argument he must make Lucrece pay heavily for her action . Chaucer appears to have understood ...
Page 159
... thing unequivo- cally signified by the poem or in the poem.2 Nor can rape be regarded as an extratextual phenomenon , an ideal Aristotelian action , or a pure social fact that the poem merely imitates or reflects . In none of these ways ...
... thing unequivo- cally signified by the poem or in the poem.2 Nor can rape be regarded as an extratextual phenomenon , an ideal Aristotelian action , or a pure social fact that the poem merely imitates or reflects . In none of these ways ...
Page 283
... Things won are done , " because " Men prize the thing ungained more than it is . " That is her contribution to the theme of imagination and value . For her it is the effort that gives value ; what is pre- cious is what the masculine ...
... Things won are done , " because " Men prize the thing ungained more than it is . " That is her contribution to the theme of imagination and value . For her it is the effort that gives value ; what is pre- cious is what the masculine ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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