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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... political order in terms of a conflict between particular bodies and the metaphoric body poli- tic : hungry plebeians rebelling over the state's hoarding of food are told by the patrician Menenius a " pretty tale " about a belly's ...
... political order in terms of a conflict between particular bodies and the metaphoric body poli- tic : hungry plebeians rebelling over the state's hoarding of food are told by the patrician Menenius a " pretty tale " about a belly's ...
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... political readings . The play nonetheless is insistently political : a rebellion , an election , an exile , a political assassi- nation , and the birth of the Roman Republic all occur . For some examples of the psychoanalytic , usually ...
... political readings . The play nonetheless is insistently political : a rebellion , an election , an exile , a political assassi- nation , and the birth of the Roman Republic all occur . For some examples of the psychoanalytic , usually ...
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... political re- alism associated with Tacitus and Machiavelli is making a novel and profound impact on imaginative literature ; and the political realism of his plays — whether or not he has read Tacitus or Machiavelli could surely not ...
... political re- alism associated with Tacitus and Machiavelli is making a novel and profound impact on imaginative literature ; and the political realism of his plays — whether or not he has read Tacitus or Machiavelli could surely not ...
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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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