Shakespearean CriticismJoseph C. Tardiff Presents 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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... Lear's ' unkind daughters ' . This theme of the animality of human behaviour finds an echo in Edgar's ' mad ' ravings , the reductive implications of which ( ' Is man no more then this ? ' ) lead to Lear tearing off his clothes in the ...
... Lear's ' unkind daughters ' . This theme of the animality of human behaviour finds an echo in Edgar's ' mad ' ravings , the reductive implications of which ( ' Is man no more then this ? ' ) lead to Lear tearing off his clothes in the ...
Page 276
... Lear's next assertion , namely that such a renunciation of the world and their former place in it will be pleasing to the gods : Upon such sacrifices my Cordelia , The Gods themselves throw Incense . And in its context ( and given what ...
... Lear's next assertion , namely that such a renunciation of the world and their former place in it will be pleasing to the gods : Upon such sacrifices my Cordelia , The Gods themselves throw Incense . And in its context ( and given what ...
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... Lear's and that of the audience ) of the irrevocability of Cordelia's death . The difficulties of interpretation arise with the new last lines given to Lear : Do you see this ? Looke on her ? Looke her lips , Looke there , looke there ...
... Lear's and that of the audience ) of the irrevocability of Cordelia's death . The difficulties of interpretation arise with the new last lines given to Lear : Do you see this ? Looke on her ? Looke her lips , Looke there , looke there ...
Contents
Catherine Belsey Love in Venice | 3 |
Mark Breitenberg The Anatomy of Masculine Desire in Loves Labors Lost | 12 |
Calderwood Walls Partitions and Performances | 23 |
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