Shakespearean CriticismPresents 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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... Bastard might be accused of following commodity , yet he is also acknowledging his natural father and thereby confirming the values of " majesty . " Thus the initial dichotomies of the play legitimacy vs. possession , majesty vs ...
... Bastard might be accused of following commodity , yet he is also acknowledging his natural father and thereby confirming the values of " majesty . " Thus the initial dichotomies of the play legitimacy vs. possession , majesty vs ...
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... Bastard glancingly alludes to the proverbial wisdom that " in the dark , Joan is as good as my lady . " He then invents an encounter between a new knight and a yeoman . His vigorous theatrical imagination allows him to play both parts ...
... Bastard glancingly alludes to the proverbial wisdom that " in the dark , Joan is as good as my lady . " He then invents an encounter between a new knight and a yeoman . His vigorous theatrical imagination allows him to play both parts ...
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... Bastard satirizes " worshipful society , " of which he is now a member , for being " too respective and too sociable " ( I.i.184-216 ) , too irrationally hierar- chical and obsequious , and he vows to practice its pretensions only to ...
... Bastard satirizes " worshipful society , " of which he is now a member , for being " too respective and too sociable " ( I.i.184-216 ) , too irrationally hierar- chical and obsequious , and he vows to practice its pretensions only to ...
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King John | 1 |
Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
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