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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... reasons . First , it points up the irony of the crime that Macbeth is shortly to commit , for in mur- dering the king Macbeth simultaneously murders not only the future he is attempting to ensure but his own reason and moral ...
... reasons . First , it points up the irony of the crime that Macbeth is shortly to commit , for in mur- dering the king Macbeth simultaneously murders not only the future he is attempting to ensure but his own reason and moral ...
Page 133
... reason . Yet the excess of reason pervades both . We may note it , for example , in Lear's diabolical daugh- ters , whom he must admonish to " reason not the need " ( II , iv , 267 ) , but rather to respond to natural , human feelings ...
... reason . Yet the excess of reason pervades both . We may note it , for example , in Lear's diabolical daugh- ters , whom he must admonish to " reason not the need " ( II , iv , 267 ) , but rather to respond to natural , human feelings ...
Page 134
... reason proves him unfeeling toward Cleopatra . We hardly sympathize with his speaking of his hours with her as " poisoned " ( II , ii , 90 ) or of the Queen herself as " a boggler ever " ( III , xiii , 110 ) , a “ foul Egyptian " ( IV ...
... reason proves him unfeeling toward Cleopatra . We hardly sympathize with his speaking of his hours with her as " poisoned " ( II , ii , 90 ) or of the Queen herself as " a boggler ever " ( III , xiii , 110 ) , a “ foul Egyptian " ( IV ...
Contents
Deception in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 70 |
Cymbeline | 205 |
Copyright | |
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