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 90
... comic technique in the structure of Antony and Cleopatra ; and to re- gard these comic techniques as surface excrescences on a fundamentally tragic play is surely as serious an error as to overemphasize them.37 There are comic elements ...
... comic technique in the structure of Antony and Cleopatra ; and to re- gard these comic techniques as surface excrescences on a fundamentally tragic play is surely as serious an error as to overemphasize them.37 There are comic elements ...
Page 165
... Comic Women , Tragic Men : Genre and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Plays , " Diss . Tufts 1975. Bamber uses Antony and Cleopatra , among other plays , to demon- strate the thesis that " the central comic woman is whole , whereas the central ...
... Comic Women , Tragic Men : Genre and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Plays , " Diss . Tufts 1975. Bamber uses Antony and Cleopatra , among other plays , to demon- strate the thesis that " the central comic woman is whole , whereas the central ...
Page 167
... comic renditions of the false death and resurrection motif , timing is an essen- tial element . The comic characters suffer temporary setbacks and mishaps due to accidents of timing , but ultimately good fortune , assisted by the ...
... comic renditions of the false death and resurrection motif , timing is an essen- tial element . The comic characters suffer temporary setbacks and mishaps due to accidents of timing , but ultimately good fortune , assisted by the ...
Contents
Deception in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 70 |
Cymbeline | 205 |
Copyright | |
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