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 70
... critics positing Egypt in opposition to Rome . Within this framework , Egypt is equated with love and desire , art and imagination , and comedy , while Rome is the locus of politics and power , reason and restraint , and tragedy . These ...
... critics positing Egypt in opposition to Rome . Within this framework , Egypt is equated with love and desire , art and imagination , and comedy , while Rome is the locus of politics and power , reason and restraint , and tragedy . These ...
Page 93
... critics are explaining away one of the major elements in the play : people such as Antony or Cleopatra are mysterious , are even inconsistent ; they must not be " rescued " from themselves by such arguments . 17 Philip J. Traci ( The ...
... critics are explaining away one of the major elements in the play : people such as Antony or Cleopatra are mysterious , are even inconsistent ; they must not be " rescued " from themselves by such arguments . 17 Philip J. Traci ( The ...
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... critics : al- most every critic who writes about the play reveals his own moral predispositions as surely as Pompey does here . Few critics are willing to posit their own moral convictions as a precondition for their interpretation of ...
... critics : al- most every critic who writes about the play reveals his own moral predispositions as surely as Pompey does here . Few critics are willing to posit their own moral convictions as a precondition for their interpretation of ...
Contents
Deception in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 70 |
Cymbeline | 205 |
Copyright | |
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