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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Page 95
... Beatrice's opening remarks show , as most commenta- tors have stressed , a large degree of witty control : those actresses who have attempted to play her as a spinster with a broad streak of neurotic cantankerousness have of course ...
... Beatrice's opening remarks show , as most commenta- tors have stressed , a large degree of witty control : those actresses who have attempted to play her as a spinster with a broad streak of neurotic cantankerousness have of course ...
Page 96
... Beatrice's . It is perhaps slightly less astonishing than hers , since we are rather more accustomed to rebellions ... BEATRICE : I wonder that you will still be talking , Signor Bene- dick ; nobody marks you . BENEDICK : What , my dear ...
... Beatrice's . It is perhaps slightly less astonishing than hers , since we are rather more accustomed to rebellions ... BEATRICE : I wonder that you will still be talking , Signor Bene- dick ; nobody marks you . BENEDICK : What , my dear ...
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... Beatrice and Benedick were introduced to us as creatures with an intense sense of individuality - both their own and other people's - and with therefore , among other things , a keen awareness of sexual differ- ences . Both because of ...
... Beatrice and Benedick were introduced to us as creatures with an intense sense of individuality - both their own and other people's - and with therefore , among other things , a keen awareness of sexual differ- ences . Both because of ...
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King John | 1 |
Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
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