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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As a matter of fact , no player or playwright is named in the Diary before 1596 , which certainly explains the absence of Shakespeare : by then Shakespeare was a member of the Lord Chamberlain's company , which had no association with ...
As a matter of fact , no player or playwright is named in the Diary before 1596 , which certainly explains the absence of Shakespeare : by then Shakespeare was a member of the Lord Chamberlain's company , which had no association with ...
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This last is in fact almost a truism — if one wants a perfectly smooth flow between the lines , one will avoid the little ripple of the feminine ending — but by no conceivable logic can the statement be inverted to mean that feminine ...
This last is in fact almost a truism — if one wants a perfectly smooth flow between the lines , one will avoid the little ripple of the feminine ending — but by no conceivable logic can the statement be inverted to mean that feminine ...
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ing to his own standards ) , the King was bound to act in this way — and the fact that the audience already know that he has just been acting so , simply adds to the scene the enhancing touch of dramatic irony .
ing to his own standards ) , the King was bound to act in this way — and the fact that the audience already know that he has just been acting so , simply adds to the scene the enhancing touch of dramatic irony .
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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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