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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... play's main theme : political legitimacy . This theme was particularly important to Elizabethans since Queen Elizabeth's legitimacy was frequently questioned . In addition to the play's political issues , critics are interested in the ...
... play's main theme : political legitimacy . This theme was particularly important to Elizabethans since Queen Elizabeth's legitimacy was frequently questioned . In addition to the play's political issues , critics are interested in the ...
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... play's villain , Don John . The other plot focuses on the " merry war " between the play's other romantic protagonists , Beatrice and Bene- dick . Modern audiences tend to identify most with the Beatrice / Benedick story , although ...
... play's villain , Don John . The other plot focuses on the " merry war " between the play's other romantic protagonists , Beatrice and Bene- dick . Modern audiences tend to identify most with the Beatrice / Benedick story , although ...
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... play's failure to provide what the critic is looking for and has come to expect , and thus transfers to the play what may well be the trouble with his critical ideology . " Since Timon does not seem to generate " unresolvable conflicts ...
... play's failure to provide what the critic is looking for and has come to expect , and thus transfers to the play what may well be the trouble with his critical ideology . " Since Timon does not seem to generate " unresolvable conflicts ...
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King John | 1 |
Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
Copyright | |
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action actor Alcibiades Angelo antimetabole Apemantus Arthur audience Barnardine Bastard Beatrice and Benedick becomes Borachio brother characters claim Claudio comedy comic Cordelia Coriolanus Cressida critical culture death desire Dogberry Dogberry's Don John Don Pedro dramatic Duke Duke's Elizabethan England English essay date expression father female final scene gesture give gold Hamlet hath Henry Hero Hero's Hubert human Iago interpretation Isabella John's Juliet King John King Lear lady language Lavinia Lear's Leonato London Love's Labour's Lost lovers male Mariana marriage meaning Measure for Measure moral nature notes Ophelia Othello Pandulph Philip play's plot political present Prince production Renaissance response revenge rhetoric Richard role Royal Shakespeare Company says seems sense sexual Shake Shakespeare silence speak speare speare's speech stage suggests thee thou Timon of Athens tion Titus Titus Andronicus tragedy University Press Volumnia Winter's Tale woman women words York