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 123
... women , it does not follow that such an ethos is the foundation of the genre as a whole . It is easy , of course , to see where the idea of a generic opposition to women in the history plays has come from . There are few women ...
... women , it does not follow that such an ethos is the foundation of the genre as a whole . It is easy , of course , to see where the idea of a generic opposition to women in the history plays has come from . There are few women ...
Page 130
... women in Shakespeare's histories are used to critique the excesses of the men who rule their lives , while women in other histories exercise forms of power that are validated , not demonized , by the playwrights who created them . Nor ...
... women in Shakespeare's histories are used to critique the excesses of the men who rule their lives , while women in other histories exercise forms of power that are validated , not demonized , by the playwrights who created them . Nor ...
Page 378
... women's will . They range from the simple- " Women will have their wills❞ — to the complex- " Will will have will ( wilt ) though will woe win . " 43 They quickly begin to recognize the pres- ence of bawdy innuendo surrounding the word ...
... women's will . They range from the simple- " Women will have their wills❞ — to the complex- " Will will have will ( wilt ) though will woe win . " 43 They quickly begin to recognize the pres- ence of bawdy innuendo surrounding the word ...
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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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