Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 13Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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Page 142
... Richard III . It does not sail the generic seas with ease and grace . It lists left , then right , then left again , in danger of capsizing with each shift in the waves of tragedy and melodrama between which it nervously rides . The ...
... Richard III . It does not sail the generic seas with ease and grace . It lists left , then right , then left again , in danger of capsizing with each shift in the waves of tragedy and melodrama between which it nervously rides . The ...
Page 143
... Richard does not self - destruct . Richmond kills him . And this is clearly no accident of Richard's own intriguing . The difficulty in the play regarded as melodrama is not Richmond , but Richard . There is nothing at all obscure about ...
... Richard does not self - destruct . Richmond kills him . And this is clearly no accident of Richard's own intriguing . The difficulty in the play regarded as melodrama is not Richmond , but Richard . There is nothing at all obscure about ...
Page 144
... Richard , till a Richard killed him . ( 4.4.40-4 ) The first Richard in the last line is the little Duke of York , but the repetition of the single name in one line indicates the depth of the vicious recurrences ; it is a pattern of ...
... Richard , till a Richard killed him . ( 4.4.40-4 ) The first Richard in the last line is the little Duke of York , but the repetition of the single name in one line indicates the depth of the vicious recurrences ; it is a pattern of ...
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Camille Wells Slights The Raw and the Cooked in The Taming of the Shrew | 11 |
A Reading of The Two Gentlemen | 18 |
Festive Theory | 36 |
Copyright | |
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