Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 5Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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Page 287
... speech has no parallel in Shakepeare's earlier history - plays . For the first time a strong moral rebuke is being uttered against war , for its encouragement of man's natural inclination towards bru- tishness , and for its destruction ...
... speech has no parallel in Shakepeare's earlier history - plays . For the first time a strong moral rebuke is being uttered against war , for its encouragement of man's natural inclination towards bru- tishness , and for its destruction ...
Page 540
... speech is as spare as those that follow it are prolix . It states a series of simple and terrible truths , whose accuracy we fully realize only by our response to the entire play . Death is Juliet's groom ; the young dead , there is no ...
... speech is as spare as those that follow it are prolix . It states a series of simple and terrible truths , whose accuracy we fully realize only by our response to the entire play . Death is Juliet's groom ; the young dead , there is no ...
Page 556
... speech of the lovers when they reflect on their wounds . The private feeling that's past the size of speech is suggested only obliquely , in terms of the size of the physical " hurt , " and even then by saying not what it is but what it ...
... speech of the lovers when they reflect on their wounds . The private feeling that's past the size of speech is suggested only obliquely , in terms of the size of the physical " hurt , " and even then by saying not what it is but what it ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | 328 |
Romeo and Juliet | 409 |
Copyright | |
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