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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... effect of smearing John's character in the opinion of the audience . Furthermore , her last series of lamentations , in III.iv , are directed not against John but against Phil- ip's " shame " ( " Lo , now ! Now see the issue of your ...
... effect of smearing John's character in the opinion of the audience . Furthermore , her last series of lamentations , in III.iv , are directed not against John but against Phil- ip's " shame " ( " Lo , now ! Now see the issue of your ...
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... effect here is complex ; paradoxically , what we are told is not real becomes real through the process of denying its reality . Throughout his plays— and not only in the histories - Shakespeare suggests that history is itself an ...
... effect here is complex ; paradoxically , what we are told is not real becomes real through the process of denying its reality . Throughout his plays— and not only in the histories - Shakespeare suggests that history is itself an ...
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... effect is once again closely akin to that of the inexpressibility topos , with the narrative poet's " I cannot tell you " translated into the dramatic poet's " I cannot show you . " The obliquity of dramatic design , placing the events ...
... effect is once again closely akin to that of the inexpressibility topos , with the narrative poet's " I cannot tell you " translated into the dramatic poet's " I cannot show you . " The obliquity of dramatic design , placing the events ...
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King John | 1 |
Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
Copyright | |
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