Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 28Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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... king's divisions " are in three heads " with this assessment : " So is the unfirm King / In three divided , and his coffers sound / With hollow poverty and emptiness " ( 1.3.70-75 ) . This is meant as a comment on the king's military ...
... king's divisions " are in three heads " with this assessment : " So is the unfirm King / In three divided , and his coffers sound / With hollow poverty and emptiness " ( 1.3.70-75 ) . This is meant as a comment on the king's military ...
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... king remains in doubt . If the play condemns the old king , it is yet so far from extolling the new one that we might be excused for hear- ing an echo of Mercutio's exasperation : " A plague a ' both your houses . " All in all , Richard ...
... king remains in doubt . If the play condemns the old king , it is yet so far from extolling the new one that we might be excused for hear- ing an echo of Mercutio's exasperation : " A plague a ' both your houses . " All in all , Richard ...
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... king's estate and determined by some- thing other than the dynastic accidents that fixed the boundaries of feudal kingdoms — an idea of extraordinary consequence for the whole course of the seventeenth cen- tury . It was the Irish ...
... king's estate and determined by some- thing other than the dynastic accidents that fixed the boundaries of feudal kingdoms — an idea of extraordinary consequence for the whole course of the seventeenth cen- tury . It was the Irish ...
Contents
Texts and Revels in Twelfth Night | 13 |
Lynda E Boose The Taming of the Shrew Good Husbandry and Enclosure | 21 |
Juliet Dusinberre As Who Liked It? | 31 |
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