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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... comedy " ( IV.ii.39-42 ) . The comic irony of Bottom's naive belief that hygenically sweet breath fashions an aesthetically sweet comedy reveals Shake- speare's skepticism about the ability of actors ' airy words to charge a play with a ...
... comedy " ( IV.ii.39-42 ) . The comic irony of Bottom's naive belief that hygenically sweet breath fashions an aesthetically sweet comedy reveals Shake- speare's skepticism about the ability of actors ' airy words to charge a play with a ...
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... comedy . This characteristic demonstrates Shakespeare's early par- ticipation in the fashioning of that genre . ' The Merry Wives of Windsor seems in fact to have been the first or second humors comedy performed in Elizabethan England ...
... comedy . This characteristic demonstrates Shakespeare's early par- ticipation in the fashioning of that genre . ' The Merry Wives of Windsor seems in fact to have been the first or second humors comedy performed in Elizabethan England ...
Page 99
... Comedy ( Princeton : Princeton Univ . Press , 1985 ) , chap . 6 , esp . p . 191 , Carroll links Falstaff to other creative agents in Shakespear- ean romantic comedy . But , as I will argue , the fact that Fal- staff is financially ...
... Comedy ( Princeton : Princeton Univ . Press , 1985 ) , chap . 6 , esp . p . 191 , Carroll links Falstaff to other creative agents in Shakespear- ean romantic comedy . But , as I will argue , the fact that Fal- staff is financially ...
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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