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
... tragic purpose : the tragedy consists precisely in the relationship between him and his tricksy servant . Generally , comic elements in the other tragedies are subsumed into the tragic vision as they are not in Antony and Cleopatra ...
... tragic purpose : the tragedy consists precisely in the relationship between him and his tricksy servant . Generally , comic elements in the other tragedies are subsumed into the tragic vision as they are not in Antony and Cleopatra ...
Page 151
... tragic Roman world , the comic Egyptian world is governed by form - dissolving Eros . Rome and Egypt are also like tragedy and comedy in their relationship of opposition , which structures more detail than can ever be mentioned in a ...
... tragic Roman world , the comic Egyptian world is governed by form - dissolving Eros . Rome and Egypt are also like tragedy and comedy in their relationship of opposition , which structures more detail than can ever be mentioned in a ...
Page 166
... tragic downfalls and deaths . What particularly interests me about the pat- tern of events with which Romeo and Juliet ends is that Shakespeare used it again , several years later , in Antony and Cleopatra . Both love tragedies conclude ...
... tragic downfalls and deaths . What particularly interests me about the pat- tern of events with which Romeo and Juliet ends is that Shakespeare used it again , several years later , in Antony and Cleopatra . Both love tragedies conclude ...
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Deception in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 70 |
Cymbeline | 205 |
Copyright | |
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