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
... play - such moments as Charmian's baiting Cleopatra about her love for Cae- sar - are not isolated phenomena : the entire tragic vision of the play is subjected to the comic perspec- tive . If this double perspective is perilous to the ...
... play - such moments as Charmian's baiting Cleopatra about her love for Cae- sar - are not isolated phenomena : the entire tragic vision of the play is subjected to the comic perspec- tive . If this double perspective is perilous to the ...
Page 146
... play , and our sym- pathetic playing , by attending to the disjunction be- tween the mortal actors before us and the romantic " space " of their dramatic representation . And yet , what seems in part to prevent the final scene from ...
... play , and our sym- pathetic playing , by attending to the disjunction be- tween the mortal actors before us and the romantic " space " of their dramatic representation . And yet , what seems in part to prevent the final scene from ...
Page 149
... play ; see Lamb , pp . 79-91 , passim . 25 Bernard Shaw , " Preface , " to Three Plays for Puri- tans ... play first dominated by tragedy and later by comedy , maintaining that the movement of the play from tragedy to comedy parallels ...
... play ; see Lamb , pp . 79-91 , passim . 25 Bernard Shaw , " Preface , " to Three Plays for Puri- tans ... play first dominated by tragedy and later by comedy , maintaining that the movement of the play from tragedy to comedy parallels ...
Contents
Deception in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 70 |
Cymbeline | 205 |
Copyright | |
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