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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... argues for a general revival in literature of " the symbols of the Elizabethan cult " ; in this play Shakespeare uses " a real Tudor king , Henry VIII , to make his contemporary points about his hopes for the youngest royal generation ...
... argues for a general revival in literature of " the symbols of the Elizabethan cult " ; in this play Shakespeare uses " a real Tudor king , Henry VIII , to make his contemporary points about his hopes for the youngest royal generation ...
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... argues the " priority of desire to at- traction " in connection with Touchstone's " as pigeons bill , so wedlock would be nibbling " ( As You Like It , III.iii.66-67 ) in Shakespeare's Festive Comedies ( Princeton : Princeton University ...
... argues the " priority of desire to at- traction " in connection with Touchstone's " as pigeons bill , so wedlock would be nibbling " ( As You Like It , III.iii.66-67 ) in Shakespeare's Festive Comedies ( Princeton : Princeton University ...
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... argues persuasively that in Lear the " feudal - heroic values " are espoused not only by Lear and Gloucester , but also by Cordelia , Edgar , Kent , and all the other sympathetic characters , and that the play reveals its author's ...
... argues persuasively that in Lear the " feudal - heroic values " are espoused not only by Lear and Gloucester , but also by Cordelia , Edgar , Kent , and all the other sympathetic characters , and that the play reveals its author's ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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