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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... suggests that only Shakespeare could modulate the almost Marlovian harshness of the portrait of Cardinal Wolsey's ambition into the moving , Christian conclusion of his downfall . The contrast with the grim consistency of the end of Dr ...
... suggests that only Shakespeare could modulate the almost Marlovian harshness of the portrait of Cardinal Wolsey's ambition into the moving , Christian conclusion of his downfall . The contrast with the grim consistency of the end of Dr ...
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... suggests that general social and political outline of Lear , the large number of evocations of Ecclesiastes ( and many more could be cited ) give that outline its emotional definition . The Preacher's la- ment that " he that encreaseth ...
... suggests that general social and political outline of Lear , the large number of evocations of Ecclesiastes ( and many more could be cited ) give that outline its emotional definition . The Preacher's la- ment that " he that encreaseth ...
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... suggest a similar abdication on the part of the playwright ? Examining the play from this standpoint suggests , I think , that Shakespeare is engaged in a kind of creative uncreation . First , some qualifications . Obviously Shakespeare ...
... suggest a similar abdication on the part of the playwright ? Examining the play from this standpoint suggests , I think , that Shakespeare is engaged in a kind of creative uncreation . First , some qualifications . Obviously Shakespeare ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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