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 158
... say before you'll get him to agree to remain ? Or it could simply be Leontes ' literal mind demanding to know whether or not Polixenes will stay , for his friend hasn't committed himself by a direct yes - or - no . When Hermione says ...
... say before you'll get him to agree to remain ? Or it could simply be Leontes ' literal mind demanding to know whether or not Polixenes will stay , for his friend hasn't committed himself by a direct yes - or - no . When Hermione says ...
Page 200
... says , “ at sight of Edgar , in a mo- ment something gives way in Lear's brain , . Henceforth he is mad . " Kenneth Muir , King Lear ( The Arden Shakespeare , London , 1955 ) , p . liv , says , " Yet Lear , on the appearance of Poor Tom ...
... says , “ at sight of Edgar , in a mo- ment something gives way in Lear's brain , . Henceforth he is mad . " Kenneth Muir , King Lear ( The Arden Shakespeare , London , 1955 ) , p . liv , says , " Yet Lear , on the appearance of Poor Tom ...
Page 274
... says " A greater power than we can contradict / Hath thwarted our intents " ( 5.3.153-54 ) , thus making lateness a near necessity of the genre , as if being late in a tragedy were to be right on time . But there is a more delicate form ...
... says " A greater power than we can contradict / Hath thwarted our intents " ( 5.3.153-54 ) , thus making lateness a near necessity of the genre , as if being late in a tragedy were to be right on time . But there is a more delicate form ...
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The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
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