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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... social rank defines political and economic power . The villainies of Frederick and Oliver , then , expose not the acquisitiveness of an emergent social order but the abuses invited by a traditional order based on kinship . This approach ...
... social rank defines political and economic power . The villainies of Frederick and Oliver , then , expose not the acquisitiveness of an emergent social order but the abuses invited by a traditional order based on kinship . This approach ...
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... social conventions which , though they glamorize an unrequited lover , demeaningly stereotype wives as jealous , moody , unfaithful , and devious . Rosalind , then , uses her disguise not so much to explore her own emotions or to shape ...
... social conventions which , though they glamorize an unrequited lover , demeaningly stereotype wives as jealous , moody , unfaithful , and devious . Rosalind , then , uses her disguise not so much to explore her own emotions or to shape ...
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... social and psychologi- cal selves . Against Jacob Burckhardt's description of the Renaissance discovery of the self as the process of distinguishing the individual from social groups , Natalie Davis has argued that in sixteenth ...
... social and psychologi- cal selves . Against Jacob Burckhardt's description of the Renaissance discovery of the self as the process of distinguishing the individual from social groups , Natalie Davis has argued that in sixteenth ...
Contents
As You Like | 1 |
Character Studies | 21 |
Production Reviews | 43 |
Copyright | |
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