Shakespearean CriticismMichelle Lee 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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... Falstaff's statement here can hardly be kept tidily within the dramatic illusion of life . Like Falstaff himself , it bulges out of the realistic frame of fiction , calling attention to its own excess . Indeed , as he delivers the ...
... Falstaff's statement here can hardly be kept tidily within the dramatic illusion of life . Like Falstaff himself , it bulges out of the realistic frame of fiction , calling attention to its own excess . Indeed , as he delivers the ...
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... Falstaff's alteration in The Merry Wives of Windsor from what he was in the history plays . Carroll also emphasizes the role of deception in the play as the wives deceive the aging Falstaff , and as both Falstaff and the jeal- ous Ford ...
... Falstaff's alteration in The Merry Wives of Windsor from what he was in the history plays . Carroll also emphasizes the role of deception in the play as the wives deceive the aging Falstaff , and as both Falstaff and the jeal- ous Ford ...
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... Falstaff become progressively more grotesque throughout the play , his delusions more absurd , and Falstaff's means of escape correspondingly more ludicrous . When Ford is about to break up the second attempted tryst , the " witch " ...
... Falstaff become progressively more grotesque throughout the play , his delusions more absurd , and Falstaff's means of escape correspondingly more ludicrous . When Ford is about to break up the second attempted tryst , the " witch " ...
Contents
Deception in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 70 |
Cymbeline | 205 |
Copyright | |
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