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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... claim by granting the boy the duchy of Brit- tany , events of 1200 that take up the first two acts of the play . But Arthur's dismissed dynastic claims also reinforce the papal legate's excommunication of John in act 3 , an event that ...
... claim by granting the boy the duchy of Brit- tany , events of 1200 that take up the first two acts of the play . But Arthur's dismissed dynastic claims also reinforce the papal legate's excommunication of John in act 3 , an event that ...
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... claim and counter - claim played out by the adults who purport to be acting in his behalf . When his mother Constance and his grandmother Elinor vie for his allegiance later in the scene , the boy exclaims in frustration : " Good my ...
... claim and counter - claim played out by the adults who purport to be acting in his behalf . When his mother Constance and his grandmother Elinor vie for his allegiance later in the scene , the boy exclaims in frustration : " Good my ...
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... claim to consensual validity . The problem of consensual validity is , I believe , a central one , and has , in fact , provided the focus for many of the recent debates about the various forms of reader- response criticism , an ...
... claim to consensual validity . The problem of consensual validity is , I believe , a central one , and has , in fact , provided the focus for many of the recent debates about the various forms of reader- response criticism , an ...
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King John | 1 |
Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
Copyright | |
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