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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... hand of the princess , and undergo a test arranged by her father in order to distin- guish between true love on the one hand and self - love and greed on the other . It is a refuge for eloping lovers , who flee the precarious world of ...
... hand of the princess , and undergo a test arranged by her father in order to distin- guish between true love on the one hand and self - love and greed on the other . It is a refuge for eloping lovers , who flee the precarious world of ...
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... hand has the sacred character of a trial by ordeal . As Nerissa explains : Your father was ever virtuous , and holy men at their death have good inspirations ; therefore the lottery that he hath devised in these three chests of gold ...
... hand has the sacred character of a trial by ordeal . As Nerissa explains : Your father was ever virtuous , and holy men at their death have good inspirations ; therefore the lottery that he hath devised in these three chests of gold ...
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... hands under their feet to tread , If that by that we might procure their ease ; And for a precedent I'll first begin And lay my hand under my husband's feet . ( p . 63 , ll . 139-42 ) The stage direction calls for her actually to lay her ...
... hands under their feet to tread , If that by that we might procure their ease ; And for a precedent I'll first begin And lay my hand under my husband's feet . ( p . 63 , ll . 139-42 ) The stage direction calls for her actually to lay her ...
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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