Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 69Gale Research Company, 1984 - 428 pages This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes one through ten present critical overviews of each play and feature criticism from the 17th century to the present. Beginning with Vol. 60, the series replaced its annual compilation of essays representing the year's most noteworthy Shakespearean scholarship with topic entries, comprised of essays that analyze various topics or themes found Shakespeare's works. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Each volume includes a cumulative character index, a topic index and a topic index arranged by play title. The plays, theme or focus of this volume include: As you like it, Henry IV, parts 1 & 2, incest, and Macbeth. - Publisher. |
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Page 143
... kind of smile he had ready to deceive the Sheriff or entrap Falstaff , but the end of the scene is not boy's play , and we see the kind of emotional intensity and personal commitment which the battle of Shrewsbury and his father's ...
... kind of smile he had ready to deceive the Sheriff or entrap Falstaff , but the end of the scene is not boy's play , and we see the kind of emotional intensity and personal commitment which the battle of Shrewsbury and his father's ...
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... kind of survival through self - consumption " ( p . 179 ) . I offer the conclusions of anthropologists not as a way of suggesting that " all people " reason or experience the world alike , or that the folklore of Pacific islanders is ...
... kind of survival through self - consumption " ( p . 179 ) . I offer the conclusions of anthropologists not as a way of suggesting that " all people " reason or experience the world alike , or that the folklore of Pacific islanders is ...
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... kind of love - passage between the Macbeths of which the natural consummation is the murder . " D. F. Rauber com- ments on Lady Macbeth's strategy of questioning Mac- beth's manliness in I.vii : " Her attack is saturated with sexuality ...
... kind of love - passage between the Macbeths of which the natural consummation is the murder . " D. F. Rauber com- ments on Lady Macbeth's strategy of questioning Mac- beth's manliness in I.vii : " Her attack is saturated with sexuality ...
Contents
As You Like | 1 |
Character Studies | 21 |
Production Reviews | 43 |
Copyright | |
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