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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... tragedy ' : the tone of their exchanges is confidently and securely comic . But it is important to remember that great tragedy and great comedy , even at their purest , have rather more in common than perhaps we are in the habit of ...
... tragedy ' : the tone of their exchanges is confidently and securely comic . But it is important to remember that great tragedy and great comedy , even at their purest , have rather more in common than perhaps we are in the habit of ...
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... tragedy the silence of a young woman in love may indicate despair as in Ophelia , or it may point up the loneliness of a woman like Virgilia who cannot compete with words and must express her love in silence . Thus a woman's silence in ...
... tragedy the silence of a young woman in love may indicate despair as in Ophelia , or it may point up the loneliness of a woman like Virgilia who cannot compete with words and must express her love in silence . Thus a woman's silence in ...
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... Tragedy : Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama . New York : Methuen , 1985 . Bloch , R. Howard . " Medieval Misogyny . " Representa- tions 20 ( Fall 1987 ) : 1-24 . Booth , Stephen . King Lear , Macbeth , Indefinition , and Tragedy ...
... Tragedy : Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama . New York : Methuen , 1985 . Bloch , R. Howard . " Medieval Misogyny . " Representa- tions 20 ( Fall 1987 ) : 1-24 . Booth , Stephen . King Lear , Macbeth , Indefinition , and Tragedy ...
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Character Studies | 14 |
Production Reviews | 40 |
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