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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... interpretation ( or , more often , misinterpretation ) not only propel the plot in Much Ado about Nothing , but also act as signs , or clues , to the play's major themes . ] Thinking about Shakespeare's Much Ado About Noth- ing led me ...
... interpretation ( or , more often , misinterpretation ) not only propel the plot in Much Ado about Nothing , but also act as signs , or clues , to the play's major themes . ] Thinking about Shakespeare's Much Ado About Noth- ing led me ...
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... Interpret All Her Martyr'd Signs ' : Titus Andronicus , Feminism , and the Limits of Interpretation . " In Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama , edited by Carole Levin and Karen Robertson , pp . 193-209 . Lewiston , N.Y .: Edwin ...
... Interpret All Her Martyr'd Signs ' : Titus Andronicus , Feminism , and the Limits of Interpretation . " In Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama , edited by Carole Levin and Karen Robertson , pp . 193-209 . Lewiston , N.Y .: Edwin ...
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... interpretation , while true to the play's movement towards resolution , is so totally contrary to Isabella's ... interpreted as a refusal to assent positively to the control of an " other . " It is for this reason , I believe , that ...
... interpretation , while true to the play's movement towards resolution , is so totally contrary to Isabella's ... interpreted as a refusal to assent positively to the control of an " other . " It is for this reason , I believe , that ...
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King John | 1 |
Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
Copyright | |
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