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 138
... says . Hence the simple correlation , ass - Dogberry , is compli- cated by a series of interpretative interventions on our part , a series which goes something like this : he is say- ing he's an ass ; he doesn't mean what he says ; this ...
... says . Hence the simple correlation , ass - Dogberry , is compli- cated by a series of interpretative interventions on our part , a series which goes something like this : he is say- ing he's an ass ; he doesn't mean what he says ; this ...
Page 274
... says she must ' love and be silent ' has to speak in order to say so , and speak again in reply to her father's challenge ( I. i ) there is an obvi- ous rhetorical contrast between her way of doing so and her sisters ' . The occasion is ...
... says she must ' love and be silent ' has to speak in order to say so , and speak again in reply to her father's challenge ( I. i ) there is an obvi- ous rhetorical contrast between her way of doing so and her sisters ' . The occasion is ...
Page 277
... says nothing more than the following : ' I do ' ; ' None , my lord ' ( the marriage vow and the statement of non- impediment - they are not her words but the publicly prescribed ones ) ; ' And seem'd I ever otherwise to you ? ' ; ' Is ...
... says nothing more than the following : ' I do ' ; ' None , my lord ' ( the marriage vow and the statement of non- impediment - they are not her words but the publicly prescribed ones ) ; ' And seem'd I ever otherwise to you ? ' ; ' Is ...
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King John | 1 |
Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
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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