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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... mean- ings pointless . Yet not altogether pointless , either . If lan- guage acquires a will of its own , speaking ... means , the words he says suggest that the urge to offend mingles with the desire to please , that the desire to ...
... mean- ings pointless . Yet not altogether pointless , either . If lan- guage acquires a will of its own , speaking ... means , the words he says suggest that the urge to offend mingles with the desire to please , that the desire to ...
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... means of the performing workmen ; language , Saussure's language , can enter the world only in the form of parole , by means of speakers and writers ; and meta- phoric visions can make their way to the printed page only in the embodied ...
... means of the performing workmen ; language , Saussure's language , can enter the world only in the form of parole , by means of speakers and writers ; and meta- phoric visions can make their way to the printed page only in the embodied ...
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... means of props and costumes and pro- logues serve merely to overload the imagination and cause it to plummet back down to the stage again . We are obliged to take material account of the presence of walls and bodies and hence of the ...
... means of props and costumes and pro- logues serve merely to overload the imagination and cause it to plummet back down to the stage again . We are obliged to take material account of the presence of walls and bodies and hence of the ...
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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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