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 113
... things have been done " ( 5.1.131-33 ) . ( The passage is lifted from Foxe's Acts and Monuments , but with an interesting addition . The line " Such things have been done " does not appear in Foxe . The addition suggests that ...
... things have been done " ( 5.1.131-33 ) . ( The passage is lifted from Foxe's Acts and Monuments , but with an interesting addition . The line " Such things have been done " does not appear in Foxe . The addition suggests that ...
Page 178
... thing to be conquered . . . . The things which are done in wars between Christians are too obscene and appalling to be mentioned here . The fact is that we only copy the worst of the ancient world - or rather we outdo it.21 Near the ...
... thing to be conquered . . . . The things which are done in wars between Christians are too obscene and appalling to be mentioned here . The fact is that we only copy the worst of the ancient world - or rather we outdo it.21 Near the ...
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... thing unfirm ' : the world of Julius Caesar Shakespeare is of course not in any sense original in associating Rome with ... things themselves . ( 1. 3. 33-5 ) In a play centrally concerned with the problems of knowledge , judgement , and ...
... thing unfirm ' : the world of Julius Caesar Shakespeare is of course not in any sense original in associating Rome with ... things themselves . ( 1. 3. 33-5 ) In a play centrally concerned with the problems of knowledge , judgement , and ...
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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