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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Page 210
... Post- humus not for himself either , but as a precious thing . Posthumus , she tells Cymbeline , " overbuys [ her ] / Almost the sum he pays " ( I. ii . 77-78 ) , and would add “ lustre " ( 74 ) to the throne . He is a " jewel in the ...
... Post- humus not for himself either , but as a precious thing . Posthumus , she tells Cymbeline , " overbuys [ her ] / Almost the sum he pays " ( I. ii . 77-78 ) , and would add “ lustre " ( 74 ) to the throne . He is a " jewel in the ...
Page 211
... Posthumus in his bragging about Imogen . The rest of the play shows that their estimate is much nearer the truth than the First Gentle- man's in I. i . Posthumus ' basic insecurity is later emphasized by his searching for an identity ...
... Posthumus in his bragging about Imogen . The rest of the play shows that their estimate is much nearer the truth than the First Gentle- man's in I. i . Posthumus ' basic insecurity is later emphasized by his searching for an identity ...
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... Posthumus disrupts his rhythm , and moves toward bathos . As his rhetoric fails , so apparently does Posthumus's rage . No longer set on committing may- hem , he decides instead to write satires against women , to " detest them , curse ...
... Posthumus disrupts his rhythm , and moves toward bathos . As his rhetoric fails , so apparently does Posthumus's rage . No longer set on committing may- hem , he decides instead to write satires against women , to " detest them , curse ...
Contents
Deception in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 70 |
Cymbeline | 205 |
Copyright | |
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