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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Page 208
... death . Lear himself momentarily associates Cordelia and death in the opening scene of the play , when he says , " So be my grave my peace as here I give / Her father's heart from her , " and the association is apparent in the scene's ...
... death . Lear himself momentarily associates Cordelia and death in the opening scene of the play , when he says , " So be my grave my peace as here I give / Her father's heart from her , " and the association is apparent in the scene's ...
Page 209
... death as is the muteness of that love at the start . Granville - Barker hints at such a mean- ing as well as at Cordelia's general symbolic properties in his comments on her characterization . He observes that she does not change in the ...
... death as is the muteness of that love at the start . Granville - Barker hints at such a mean- ing as well as at Cordelia's general symbolic properties in his comments on her characterization . He observes that she does not change in the ...
Page 210
... death , and of her tragic embodiment of the futility of the denial of death , is that the promise of these overtones also proves empty . Cordelia's counterpart in the chronicle play of King Leir is , like the whole of that play ...
... death , and of her tragic embodiment of the futility of the denial of death , is that the promise of these overtones also proves empty . Cordelia's counterpart in the chronicle play of King Leir is , like the whole of that play ...
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The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
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