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 124
... for he returns immediately to thoughts of princes ' favors and plunges into self - pity , seeing in his fall the dramatic finality of Satan's : “ And when he falls , he falls like Lucifer , / Never to hope again ” ( 371-72 ) .
... for he returns immediately to thoughts of princes ' favors and plunges into self - pity , seeing in his fall the dramatic finality of Satan's : “ And when he falls , he falls like Lucifer , / Never to hope again ” ( 371-72 ) .
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discusses 26 images of bodily movement in the play , 12 of which fall to Fletcher's share — some of them so brief and commonplace that their inclusion ( since in other plays such images are not included in the counts23 ) seems rather ...
discusses 26 images of bodily movement in the play , 12 of which fall to Fletcher's share — some of them so brief and commonplace that their inclusion ( since in other plays such images are not included in the counts23 ) seems rather ...
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If the fall of Wolsey illuminates , in this play ( as it did in real life ) , the nobler sides of his character and of political policy in general , the question remains of the condition in which it leaves the king .
If the fall of Wolsey illuminates , in this play ( as it did in real life ) , the nobler sides of his character and of political policy in general , the question remains of the condition in which it leaves the king .
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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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