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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... stage . " 2 Before Falstaff lugs off the body , however , he decides to make Percy " sure " by stabbing him again- " Yea , and I'll swear I killed him , ” he says ( 126-27 ) . It seems a safe enough plan , what with a dead Hotspur and a ...
... stage . " 2 Before Falstaff lugs off the body , however , he decides to make Percy " sure " by stabbing him again- " Yea , and I'll swear I killed him , ” he says ( 126-27 ) . It seems a safe enough plan , what with a dead Hotspur and a ...
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... stage for effeminizing the young ac- tors and their male audiences who , supposedly titil- lated by homoerotic fantasies , lose their manhood or manliness.10 But in more insidious sense , their criti- cism of the stage , I believe ...
... stage for effeminizing the young ac- tors and their male audiences who , supposedly titil- lated by homoerotic fantasies , lose their manhood or manliness.10 But in more insidious sense , their criti- cism of the stage , I believe ...
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... stage.24 To accept Cleopatra's play we must accept it as play , be willing to accept the efficacy of acting to restore such a scene even while being " beggar'd " by it : there will be no barge burnishing , no music , no Cupids and ...
... stage.24 To accept Cleopatra's play we must accept it as play , be willing to accept the efficacy of acting to restore such a scene even while being " beggar'd " by it : there will be no barge burnishing , no music , no Cupids and ...
Contents
Deception in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 70 |
Cymbeline | 205 |
Copyright | |
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