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 171
... authority he invokes : “ you are a councillor ; if you can command these elements to silence , and work the peace of the present . . . Use your authority " ( 20-2 ) . Finally , as the ship splinters , their recourse is prayer : " All ...
... authority he invokes : “ you are a councillor ; if you can command these elements to silence , and work the peace of the present . . . Use your authority " ( 20-2 ) . Finally , as the ship splinters , their recourse is prayer : " All ...
Page 252
... authority , she will , in the meantime , use her arts of language brilliantly in the next scenes to chal- lenge and inadvertently threaten secular authority . In her first encounter with Angelo , Isabella challenges his secular authority ...
... authority , she will , in the meantime , use her arts of language brilliantly in the next scenes to chal- lenge and inadvertently threaten secular authority . In her first encounter with Angelo , Isabella challenges his secular authority ...
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... authority , not only to secular authority ( as was the case with Isa- bella's challenge ) , but to divine right monarchy . Again a dialectic is played out between the " Friar " and Es- calus ( 5.1.305 ) in which the Friar claims ...
... authority , not only to secular authority ( as was the case with Isa- bella's challenge ) , but to divine right monarchy . Again a dialectic is played out between the " Friar " and Es- calus ( 5.1.305 ) in which the Friar claims ...
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King John | 1 |
Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
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