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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... force that has destroyed the protagonists and their world , even as it also guarantees the audience's relative pro- tection from that force by the saving grace of figura- tion . In comedy , even more crucially , wonder absorbs into ...
... force that has destroyed the protagonists and their world , even as it also guarantees the audience's relative pro- tection from that force by the saving grace of figura- tion . In comedy , even more crucially , wonder absorbs into ...
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... forces and a bigger fleet to harass a larger part of the world with their plunderings . " Though the story's moral ... force to override civil law's right to execute convicted fel- ons . Although Shakespeare avoids replicating the pi ...
... forces and a bigger fleet to harass a larger part of the world with their plunderings . " Though the story's moral ... force to override civil law's right to execute convicted fel- ons . Although Shakespeare avoids replicating the pi ...
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... force and mercy ; it reveals power's capacity to exceed law and to arrogate a fictional difference between subject and sovereign in order to legitimate that excess . Of Henry V's determination to follow his father's advice " to busy ...
... force and mercy ; it reveals power's capacity to exceed law and to arrogate a fictional difference between subject and sovereign in order to legitimate that excess . Of Henry V's determination to follow his father's advice " to busy ...
Contents
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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