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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... things of nothing , had been familiarized with the pattern not only by De Contemptu philosophy but by two other well - known bodies of writing . The first consisted of theological treatises affirming the original nothingness surrounding ...
... things of nothing , had been familiarized with the pattern not only by De Contemptu philosophy but by two other well - known bodies of writing . The first consisted of theological treatises affirming the original nothingness surrounding ...
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... things . ( Timon of Athens , V.i.189 ) Timon's statement , of course , had its obverse side . Nothing , in a positive sense , did produce all things ; and its formidableness in the genesis of man's affairs and dreams became for ...
... things . ( Timon of Athens , V.i.189 ) Timon's statement , of course , had its obverse side . Nothing , in a positive sense , did produce all things ; and its formidableness in the genesis of man's affairs and dreams became for ...
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... things in the world canst thou nearest compare to thy flatterers ? " Timon responds , " Women nearest , but men - men are the things themselves " ( 4.3.318-21 ) . Men , it turns out , are the empty , painted things . LANGUAGE AS FETISH ...
... things in the world canst thou nearest compare to thy flatterers ? " Timon responds , " Women nearest , but men - men are the things themselves " ( 4.3.318-21 ) . Men , it turns out , are the empty , painted things . LANGUAGE AS FETISH ...
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Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
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