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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Page 62
Curiously , Matus fails to mention the main evidence for Shakspere's claim to authorship , found in the introductory material to the First Folio . Poems by Ben Jonson , Leonard Digges , and two others contrive to praise the poet while ...
Curiously , Matus fails to mention the main evidence for Shakspere's claim to authorship , found in the introductory material to the First Folio . Poems by Ben Jonson , Leonard Digges , and two others contrive to praise the poet while ...
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As I can lay claim to no legal expertise myself , I rely very largely for my criticism of this part of the Baconian case on J. M. Robertson , who was not only a great Elizabethan scholar , but spent five years of his life in a lawyer's ...
As I can lay claim to no legal expertise myself , I rely very largely for my criticism of this part of the Baconian case on J. M. Robertson , who was not only a great Elizabethan scholar , but spent five years of his life in a lawyer's ...
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Chatillon three times uses the word ' right ' for Arthur's claim ; John's only rebuttal is force , ' war for war and blood for blood ' ( 19 ) . Eleanor also , though she disapproves of ' ambitious Constance ' ( 32 ) , speaks of ' the ...
Chatillon three times uses the word ' right ' for Arthur's claim ; John's only rebuttal is force , ' war for war and blood for blood ' ( 19 ) . Eleanor also , though she disapproves of ' ambitious Constance ' ( 32 ) , speaks of ' the ...
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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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