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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... women's and men's loving each other , Shakespeare suggests that a man's idealization of his beloved dooms their relationship to failure . The woman who must be , or is , killed is the woman on a pedestal . In The Winter's Tale ...
... women's and men's loving each other , Shakespeare suggests that a man's idealization of his beloved dooms their relationship to failure . The woman who must be , or is , killed is the woman on a pedestal . In The Winter's Tale ...
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... women's betrayal more strongly than men's . Women's deceptiveness is often at the core of tragedy , and Shake- speare's tragic heroes go mad or nearly so in the face . of it . The felt betrayal of a mother and of daughters accounts ...
... women's betrayal more strongly than men's . Women's deceptiveness is often at the core of tragedy , and Shake- speare's tragic heroes go mad or nearly so in the face . of it . The felt betrayal of a mother and of daughters accounts ...
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... women and men as more rich and complex than he was able to imagine earlier . At the same time , he always retained a sense of the fragility of bonds between women and men as well as of the strength of men's bonds with each other , which ...
... women and men as more rich and complex than he was able to imagine earlier . At the same time , he always retained a sense of the fragility of bonds between women and men as well as of the strength of men's bonds with each other , which ...
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Deception in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 70 |
Cymbeline | 205 |
Copyright | |
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