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 157
... head in the history play are not difficult to determine . The display of the head serves as a striking , unmistakable image signifying not only the defeat and demise of the victim , but , more crucially , the loss or transfer of ...
... head in the history play are not difficult to determine . The display of the head serves as a striking , unmistakable image signifying not only the defeat and demise of the victim , but , more crucially , the loss or transfer of ...
Page 161
... heads is that there has been a fundamental change in social hierarchies and the distribution of power .... Taking a head transforms the menu peuple from the passive " source of sovereignty " to the active executor of sovereign power.2 ...
... heads is that there has been a fundamental change in social hierarchies and the distribution of power .... Taking a head transforms the menu peuple from the passive " source of sovereignty " to the active executor of sovereign power.2 ...
Page 162
... head and the exit for Iden are both absent . If Iden does not leave the stage with Cade's head , that gruesome property may remain visible - possibly mounted on a pike be- hind the king - through the remainder of the scene , thereby ...
... head and the exit for Iden are both absent . If Iden does not leave the stage with Cade's head , that gruesome property may remain visible - possibly mounted on a pike be- hind the king - through the remainder of the scene , thereby ...
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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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