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 122
... course of the play false values are replaced with true ones and flawed ideals are refined . In order to appreciate the play , we must stop thinking of masques in a loosely pejorative sense and start think- ing of their form . 9 The play ...
... course of the play false values are replaced with true ones and flawed ideals are refined . In order to appreciate the play , we must stop thinking of masques in a loosely pejorative sense and start think- ing of their form . 9 The play ...
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... course , but purely dramatic - for John's action . To Pandulph , that other and even greater master in the art of Commodity , such a course of ac- tion was inevitable : given the situation and the charac- ter of John ( which the Legate ...
... course , but purely dramatic - for John's action . To Pandulph , that other and even greater master in the art of Commodity , such a course of ac- tion was inevitable : given the situation and the charac- ter of John ( which the Legate ...
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... course of this twofold evolution illustrates the very leading idea of the whole drama . Structurally , this is perhaps the highest achievement . The Coghillian notion of a governing idea has , of course , preoccupied critics . Some ...
... course of this twofold evolution illustrates the very leading idea of the whole drama . Structurally , this is perhaps the highest achievement . The Coghillian notion of a governing idea has , of course , preoccupied critics . Some ...
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