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
... play's episodic struc- ture by invoking the medieval de casibus tradition , thus explaining a Jacobean history play in terms of an essentially medieval theory of history . Frank V. Ces- pedes argues " that the structure of Henry VIII is ...
... play's episodic struc- ture by invoking the medieval de casibus tradition , thus explaining a Jacobean history play in terms of an essentially medieval theory of history . Frank V. Ces- pedes argues " that the structure of Henry VIII is ...
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... play in " the tendency in post 1940 scholarship to describe John as ambivalent , ambiguous , suspicious , sceptical , questioning and ideologically subversive " . The form and tone of John , in other words , are recognisably modern ...
... play in " the tendency in post 1940 scholarship to describe John as ambivalent , ambiguous , suspicious , sceptical , questioning and ideologically subversive " . The form and tone of John , in other words , are recognisably modern ...
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... play was due , according to David Bevington , to a need for relevant , but indirect , appeals to “ war fever " .28 Anti - Spanish and anti - Catholic sentiments were common across a range of plays . John's resistance to Pandulph in ...
... play was due , according to David Bevington , to a need for relevant , but indirect , appeals to “ war fever " .28 Anti - Spanish and anti - Catholic sentiments were common across a range of plays . John's resistance to Pandulph in ...
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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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