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 167
... death , the ultimate silence , but the Ghost's is creative of speech . It arouses in its observers the strong desire to question it , to find out what it wants and what its return to earth means . This is true of the silences in Hamlet ...
... death , the ultimate silence , but the Ghost's is creative of speech . It arouses in its observers the strong desire to question it , to find out what it wants and what its return to earth means . This is true of the silences in Hamlet ...
Page 190
... death sentence : " Immediate sentence , then , and se- quent death / Is all the grace I beg " ( lines 369-70 ) . That repositioning meant that the Angelo of Hack's produc- tion did not as he does in Shakespeare's playtext- continue to ...
... death sentence : " Immediate sentence , then , and se- quent death / Is all the grace I beg " ( lines 369-70 ) . That repositioning meant that the Angelo of Hack's produc- tion did not as he does in Shakespeare's playtext- continue to ...
Page 280
... death is necessary for the achievement of a comic fulness of life . One way of putting it would be to say that The Winter's Tale , with its hinged tragicomic structure , is the logical conclusion of Shakespeare's work . That play is ...
... death is necessary for the achievement of a comic fulness of life . One way of putting it would be to say that The Winter's Tale , with its hinged tragicomic structure , is the logical conclusion of Shakespeare's work . That play is ...
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Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
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