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 127
... kind of wisdom is presented by the playwright as a higher kind ' than that possessed by any other character in the play - a wisdom which could have led to far greater happiness than the prudence which her husband was persuaded to ...
... kind of wisdom is presented by the playwright as a higher kind ' than that possessed by any other character in the play - a wisdom which could have led to far greater happiness than the prudence which her husband was persuaded to ...
Page 207
... kind- ness / Makes my past miseries sports " ( V.iii.40-41 ) . The pattern , as well as the texture , of Lear's experience is the reverse . Lear tells Kent at the outset of the play that he had " thought to set [ his ] rest / On ...
... kind- ness / Makes my past miseries sports " ( V.iii.40-41 ) . The pattern , as well as the texture , of Lear's experience is the reverse . Lear tells Kent at the outset of the play that he had " thought to set [ his ] rest / On ...
Page 258
... kind of prudence - once burned , twice shy - the effect of the scene is a chastening one ; having paid once for a foolishly and nakedly direct involve- ment , we shall be wary indeed of imposing once again our own needs , our own ...
... kind of prudence - once burned , twice shy - the effect of the scene is a chastening one ; having paid once for a foolishly and nakedly direct involve- ment , we shall be wary indeed of imposing once again our own needs , our own ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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