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 156
... once . The ghost of Cordile in Higgins ' Mirror for Magistrates speaks succinctly to expose her sisters ' flattery : ' I will ( said I ) at once my love declare and tell . . . ' " Holinshed's Cordeilla is downright verbose : Knowing the ...
... once . The ghost of Cordile in Higgins ' Mirror for Magistrates speaks succinctly to expose her sisters ' flattery : ' I will ( said I ) at once my love declare and tell . . . ' " Holinshed's Cordeilla is downright verbose : Knowing the ...
Page 183
... once : her smiles and tears Were like a better way : those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip seemed not to know What guests were in her eyes , which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropped . In brief , Sorrow would be a ...
... once : her smiles and tears Were like a better way : those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip seemed not to know What guests were in her eyes , which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropped . In brief , Sorrow would be a ...
Page 253
... once again : " tis not impossible / But one , the wicked'st caitiff on the ground , / May seem as shy , as grave , as just , as absolute , as Angelo . . . " ( 5.1.52-55 ) . Ironically , her strong discourse constitutes slander , and the ...
... once again : " tis not impossible / But one , the wicked'st caitiff on the ground , / May seem as shy , as grave , as just , as absolute , as Angelo . . . " ( 5.1.52-55 ) . Ironically , her strong discourse constitutes slander , and the ...
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