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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... fall " ( II.i.166-67 ) . To Norfolk , Wolsey may be " the king - cardinal , / That blind priest " who , " like the eldest son of fortune , / Turns what he list " ( II.ii.19-21 ) , but to Henry he is " the quiet of my wounded conscience ...
... fall " ( II.i.166-67 ) . To Norfolk , Wolsey may be " the king - cardinal , / That blind priest " who , " like the eldest son of fortune , / Turns what he list " ( II.ii.19-21 ) , but to Henry he is " the quiet of my wounded conscience ...
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... fall . ( We may even remember that it was at York Place that Henry and Anne first met . ) As Katharine falls , Anne rises ; as Wolsey falls , Cranmer rises.23 And finally those who fall , and those who opposed them And those whom they ...
... fall . ( We may even remember that it was at York Place that Henry and Anne first met . ) As Katharine falls , Anne rises ; as Wolsey falls , Cranmer rises.23 And finally those who fall , and those who opposed them And those whom they ...
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... falling , and such a thing as loss , neither Lear nor Gloucester can fall from where he never actu- ally stood , or lose what he never really had.13 13 To adapt Coleridge's line one last time , Lear's decline along with Gloucester's fall ...
... falling , and such a thing as loss , neither Lear nor Gloucester can fall from where he never actu- ally stood , or lose what he never really had.13 13 To adapt Coleridge's line one last time , Lear's decline along with Gloucester's fall ...
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The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
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