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 191
... political debate , but to unconnected " reiterations " of an a priori principle , it becomes difficult either to prove or disprove his thesis . A more truly historicist case for seeing Henry as a dissimulating Machiavel has recently ...
... political debate , but to unconnected " reiterations " of an a priori principle , it becomes difficult either to prove or disprove his thesis . A more truly historicist case for seeing Henry as a dissimulating Machiavel has recently ...
Page 218
... political life to men like Edmund , who will ruthlessly stamp out all that Lear legitimately has come to value in the realms that transcend politics . It is thus characteristic of the complexity of the move- ment of King Lear that ...
... political life to men like Edmund , who will ruthlessly stamp out all that Lear legitimately has come to value in the realms that transcend politics . It is thus characteristic of the complexity of the move- ment of King Lear that ...
Page 285
... political reading is apt to become fairly predictable once you know whose side the reader is taking , that of the patricians or that of the plebeians . " 13 An astute political reading ( and this includes Brecht's ) recognizes at once ...
... political reading is apt to become fairly predictable once you know whose side the reader is taking , that of the patricians or that of the plebeians . " 13 An astute political reading ( and this includes Brecht's ) recognizes at once ...
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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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