Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 63Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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Page 63
... Once more the play seems to dramatize the contradiction of female subjectivity : Helena expresses an active ( " masculine " ) longing to consummate her passion but in terms that betray a " feminine " urge to empower and sustain Bertram ...
... Once more the play seems to dramatize the contradiction of female subjectivity : Helena expresses an active ( " masculine " ) longing to consummate her passion but in terms that betray a " feminine " urge to empower and sustain Bertram ...
Page 296
... once showed him the mercy of pardon , this " abuse " becomes central to the tragedy of his self- deception , central to the alienation from his own repressed emotion which thwarts his potentially integrative ideals . Brutus cannot find ...
... once showed him the mercy of pardon , this " abuse " becomes central to the tragedy of his self- deception , central to the alienation from his own repressed emotion which thwarts his potentially integrative ideals . Brutus cannot find ...
Page 362
... once on television . In New York , as one would expect , Two Gentlemen has had a much slighter stage history than in London , ' and at the " other Stratford " in Ontario it has had just four productions in a forty - year history ...
... once on television . In New York , as one would expect , Two Gentlemen has had a much slighter stage history than in London , ' and at the " other Stratford " in Ontario it has had just four productions in a forty - year history ...
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