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 95
... performance , and it is clear that she is deriving from it the same kind of pleasure as the audience enjoys . Yet this is far from be- ing mere performance . As a proud and noble creature she is displaying her plumage , but she is doing ...
... performance , and it is clear that she is deriving from it the same kind of pleasure as the audience enjoys . Yet this is far from be- ing mere performance . As a proud and noble creature she is displaying her plumage , but she is doing ...
Page 283
... performance , when actors and directors collaborate with the playwright to interpret it . " Egeus and the Implications of Silence . " In Shakespeare and the Sense of Performance , edited by Marvin Thompson and Ruth Thompson , pp . 103 ...
... performance , when actors and directors collaborate with the playwright to interpret it . " Egeus and the Implications of Silence . " In Shakespeare and the Sense of Performance , edited by Marvin Thompson and Ruth Thompson , pp . 103 ...
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... performance dynamics in a play's shaping of audience response requires the reader- or audience - oriented critic of dramatic texts to construct a provisional mean between the two extremes embodied by the static text which we alone can ...
... performance dynamics in a play's shaping of audience response requires the reader- or audience - oriented critic of dramatic texts to construct a provisional mean between the two extremes embodied by the static text which we alone can ...
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King John | 1 |
Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
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