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 196
... response to that second proposal was as eloquently affirmative as her response to the first . She rose after the Duke finished speaking , paused briefly but noticeably , then went swiftly toward him . They embraced and kissed , their ...
... response to that second proposal was as eloquently affirmative as her response to the first . She rose after the Duke finished speaking , paused briefly but noticeably , then went swiftly toward him . They embraced and kissed , their ...
Page 305
... response criticism , an enterprise that has much in com- mon with the project I have undertaken here . Unfortu- nately , most proponents of reader - response criticism have confined themselves , both in theory and practice , to the ...
... response criticism , an enterprise that has much in com- mon with the project I have undertaken here . Unfortu- nately , most proponents of reader - response criticism have confined themselves , both in theory and practice , to the ...
Page 306
... 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 animate and the kinetic play which alone can animate ...
... 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 animate and the kinetic play which alone can animate ...
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King John | 1 |
Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
Copyright | |
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