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 174
... nature and nurture are suggested : nature without nurture remains confined to the concrete and physical , but nurture , removed from nature , may become etherial and abstract . Reality — and the art of Shakespeare - encompasses both ...
... nature and nurture are suggested : nature without nurture remains confined to the concrete and physical , but nurture , removed from nature , may become etherial and abstract . Reality — and the art of Shakespeare - encompasses both ...
Page 316
... nature are to be desired over social processes contrived by people . This natural / artificial dichotomy reiterates notions of intrinsic and exchange value and implicates the concept of double seeing , or a discrepancy between ...
... nature are to be desired over social processes contrived by people . This natural / artificial dichotomy reiterates notions of intrinsic and exchange value and implicates the concept of double seeing , or a discrepancy between ...
Page 334
... natural love of their children can be erased . What kind of nature is this , that can thus be erased ? Custom is a second nature that destroys the first . But what is nature ? Why isn't custom natural ? I am very much afraid that this ...
... natural love of their children can be erased . What kind of nature is this , that can thus be erased ? Custom is a second nature that destroys the first . But what is nature ? Why isn't custom natural ? I am very much afraid that this ...
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Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
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