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 365
... story about The Tempest , Prospero's paranoid perception of Caliban's sexual maturation is consistent with other perceptions on the part of the European invader . Prospero is the sole source of the claim that Caliban is the son of the ...
... story about The Tempest , Prospero's paranoid perception of Caliban's sexual maturation is consistent with other perceptions on the part of the European invader . Prospero is the sole source of the claim that Caliban is the son of the ...
Page 368
... story . Kermode is right about the com- monplace equation of true nobility with virtue , but it is a commonplace with Platonic , not Christian , origins , and it is specifically opposed by Augustine's paradoxi- cal equation of true ...
... story . Kermode is right about the com- monplace equation of true nobility with virtue , but it is a commonplace with Platonic , not Christian , origins , and it is specifically opposed by Augustine's paradoxi- cal equation of true ...
Page 371
... story of The Tempest has offered persuasive insights about structural social injustice , and those insights are important to a Christian story of the play , because social justice is a serious concern of the Christian story itself . The ...
... story of The Tempest has offered persuasive insights about structural social injustice , and those insights are important to a Christian story of the play , because social justice is a serious concern of the Christian story itself . The ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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