Shakespearean CriticismDana Ramel Barnes 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 110
... audience in 1533 is of course history to his audience in 1613. In short , how we respond to the play as a whole depends greatly on how we respond to Cranmer's rendering of Tudor- Stuart history . Commentators who view the play as an ...
... audience in 1533 is of course history to his audience in 1613. In short , how we respond to the play as a whole depends greatly on how we respond to Cranmer's rendering of Tudor- Stuart history . Commentators who view the play as an ...
Page 118
... audience's wishful memories and lingering regrets over Elizabeth's denial of their wish . Perhaps a Jacobean audience may not have grasped the intricacies of Cranmer's maneuver , but its general sense the intimate association between ...
... audience's wishful memories and lingering regrets over Elizabeth's denial of their wish . Perhaps a Jacobean audience may not have grasped the intricacies of Cranmer's maneuver , but its general sense the intimate association between ...
Page 137
... audience accepting John's legiti- macy need not have understood him to challenge this right , and it is possible to imagine a performance which makes clear that John is legitimate King . His legiti- macy is further buttressed by the ...
... audience accepting John's legiti- macy need not have understood him to challenge this right , and it is possible to imagine a performance which makes clear that John is legitimate King . His legiti- macy is further buttressed by the ...
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T G Bishop Compounding Errors | 12 |
Geraldo U de Sousa The Peasants Revolt and the Writing of History in 2 Henry | 105 |
Martha A Kurtz Rethinking Gender and Genre in the History Play | 122 |
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