Shakespearean CriticismPresents 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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The same passage , adapted from Richard II , that would adulterate the integrity of an unknown W. S.'s censure of the stage by incongruously soliciting poetic authority becomes , in Shakespeare's hands , an admonition of the vanity of ...
The same passage , adapted from Richard II , that would adulterate the integrity of an unknown W. S.'s censure of the stage by incongruously soliciting poetic authority becomes , in Shakespeare's hands , an admonition of the vanity of ...
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Later writers also imagined a connection between Richard I and the Faulconbridge family . In Looke About You ( 1599 ) , a piece related to the Robin Hood plays , Prince Richard assails ( in vain ) the virtue of Sir Richard ...
Later writers also imagined a connection between Richard I and the Faulconbridge family . In Looke About You ( 1599 ) , a piece related to the Robin Hood plays , Prince Richard assails ( in vain ) the virtue of Sir Richard ...
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within wedlock , and therefore the rightful heir — for this seems to rule against his own position , since if primogeniture were applied in his case , Arthur as the son of Richard's next eldest brother would inherit all .
within wedlock , and therefore the rightful heir — for this seems to rule against his own position , since if primogeniture were applied in his case , Arthur as the son of Richard's next eldest brother would inherit all .
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| Title | Shakespearean Criticism Literature criticism online Volume 41 of Shakespearean Criticism Series |
| Editor | Michelle Lee |
| Publisher | Gale Research International, Limited, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0787619868, 9780787619862 |
| Length | 420 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / Reference Literary Criticism / Shakespeare |
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