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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... Later the scheming Bishop of Winchester becomes a means of Gloucester's and the kingdom's downfall ( 2H6 , III.1 ) . Among the ante- cedents of this first scene is the mystery - play tradition that portrayed as bishops the Jewish ...
... Later the scheming Bishop of Winchester becomes a means of Gloucester's and the kingdom's downfall ( 2H6 , III.1 ) . Among the ante- cedents of this first scene is the mystery - play tradition that portrayed as bishops the Jewish ...
Page 149
... Later the two officials , " for pulling scarfs off Caesar's images , are put to silence " ( 1.2.285 ) . Personal jealousies aside , then , the tribunes ' fears are well grounded . Working men walk idle , without their customary ...
... Later the two officials , " for pulling scarfs off Caesar's images , are put to silence " ( 1.2.285 ) . Personal jealousies aside , then , the tribunes ' fears are well grounded . Working men walk idle , without their customary ...
Page 158
... later . 16 For both , the gentili- ty of poets and of poetry was endangered by their subjec- tion to the begging rabble of players . And when in 1592 Greene warned " those gentlemen , his quondam acquain- tance that spend their wits in ...
... later . 16 For both , the gentili- ty of poets and of poetry was endangered by their subjec- tion to the begging rabble of players . And when in 1592 Greene warned " those gentlemen , his quondam acquain- tance that spend their wits in ...
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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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