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 255
... reason why the insistently anti- Catholic author of The Troublesome Raigne should- and every reason why he should not - wrestle ardu- ously with Holinshed so as to reconfigure John's reign around Arthur . Nor is there any indication in ...
... reason why the insistently anti- Catholic author of The Troublesome Raigne should- and every reason why he should not - wrestle ardu- ously with Holinshed so as to reconfigure John's reign around Arthur . Nor is there any indication in ...
Page 327
... reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things . 10 In distinguishing poetry from reason , Bacon implicitly undercuts the idealist mimesis to which Sidney gave expression , for Bacon sees truth in the things of the world ...
... reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things . 10 In distinguishing poetry from reason , Bacon implicitly undercuts the idealist mimesis to which Sidney gave expression , for Bacon sees truth in the things of the world ...
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... reason contrasts both with the obedient deference deemed appropriate for women and with an inference of " womanishness " or effeminacy regarding the tyrant , whose subjection to passion and appetitiveness emas- culates him in the ...
... reason contrasts both with the obedient deference deemed appropriate for women and with an inference of " womanishness " or effeminacy regarding the tyrant , whose subjection to passion and appetitiveness emas- culates him in the ...
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