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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... turn related to the play's more general explora- tion of nature and art ) : in what we take to be the conventional and culturally ' primary ' meaning of the comparison , the expression of Orlando's ( and Rosalind's ) love is the natural ...
... turn related to the play's more general explora- tion of nature and art ) : in what we take to be the conventional and culturally ' primary ' meaning of the comparison , the expression of Orlando's ( and Rosalind's ) love is the natural ...
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... turn would imply that , in their own time , Shakespeare's comedies were not just - in Stephen Greenblatt's words - fictions which " participated in a larger field of sexual discourses " but were fictions of the Reformation — that is ...
... turn would imply that , in their own time , Shakespeare's comedies were not just - in Stephen Greenblatt's words - fictions which " participated in a larger field of sexual discourses " but were fictions of the Reformation — that is ...
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... turn'd his balls to gunstones , and his soul Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance That shall fly with them " ( 11. 281-84 ) . Despite Henry's attempts to displace responsibility for the French campaign , his taste for ...
... turn'd his balls to gunstones , and his soul Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance That shall fly with them " ( 11. 281-84 ) . Despite Henry's attempts to displace responsibility for the French campaign , his taste for ...
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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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