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 45
... concerns of King John . The great concern for order lent Shakespeare and all Elizabethan writers a synthesizing and unifying vision . So , it is unfortunate that political concerns have been treated as discrete themes . For instance ...
... concerns of King John . The great concern for order lent Shakespeare and all Elizabethan writers a synthesizing and unifying vision . So , it is unfortunate that political concerns have been treated as discrete themes . For instance ...
Page 137
... concern of the whole play with signs is reflected whenever love becomes the subject of conversation , since love is manifested primarily in a series of signs : " If he be not in love with some woman , " says Claudio of Benedick ...
... concern of the whole play with signs is reflected whenever love becomes the subject of conversation , since love is manifested primarily in a series of signs : " If he be not in love with some woman , " says Claudio of Benedick ...
Page 144
... concerned with the business of life as his tragedy is . Shakespeare shows us in his comedies that , like Cressida and ... concern that this may already be the case is not eased by Wood's adding teasingly that if Shakespeare " couldn't ...
... concerned with the business of life as his tragedy is . Shakespeare shows us in his comedies that , like Cressida and ... concern that this may already be the case is not eased by Wood's adding teasingly that if Shakespeare " couldn't ...
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King John | 1 |
Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
Copyright | |
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