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 51
... thing " of the first stanza should be taken in the sexual sense , and that the song catalogues the three vices of drunkenness which correspond to the three ages of man , lechery , wrath , and sloth ( The First Night of Twelfth Night ...
... thing " of the first stanza should be taken in the sexual sense , and that the song catalogues the three vices of drunkenness which correspond to the three ages of man , lechery , wrath , and sloth ( The First Night of Twelfth Night ...
Page 133
... things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in their philosophies . Antony and Cleopatra dramatizes some of these ... thing that ends all other deeds , / Which shackles accidents and bolts up change . . . " ( V , ii , 5-6 ) . Whether ...
... things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in their philosophies . Antony and Cleopatra dramatizes some of these ... thing that ends all other deeds , / Which shackles accidents and bolts up change . . . " ( V , ii , 5-6 ) . Whether ...
Page 143
... thing for these women to do , to lift him up " ; 2 like Plutarch , Shakespeare finds the " dramatic capital " of the monument scene in the challenge of its acting , the " apparent difficulty " of hoisting " a full- grown man ten or ...
... thing for these women to do , to lift him up " ; 2 like Plutarch , Shakespeare finds the " dramatic capital " of the monument scene in the challenge of its acting , the " apparent difficulty " of hoisting " a full- grown man ten or ...
Contents
Deception in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 70 |
Cymbeline | 205 |
Copyright | |
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