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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... present a unique historical overview of the critical response to each Shakespearean work . A multiplicity of viewpoints derives from the nearly two hundred periodicals and books that are the sources for each volume of SC . The essays ...
... present a unique historical overview of the critical response to each Shakespearean work . A multiplicity of viewpoints derives from the nearly two hundred periodicals and books that are the sources for each volume of SC . The essays ...
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... present " but also in the play's de- bunking of all its cultural forefathers - a debunking that renders them as impotent as Old Fortinbras or Polonius , as imperfect as Hamlet fears his father is . And , as Hamlet would predict , the ...
... present " but also in the play's de- bunking of all its cultural forefathers - a debunking that renders them as impotent as Old Fortinbras or Polonius , as imperfect as Hamlet fears his father is . And , as Hamlet would predict , the ...
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... present through Diomedes's description of her " soilure " in 4.1 ; vari- ants of " soil " are insistently used in ... presents a problem of identity which the play fails to solve " ( Shakespeare , trans . Guy Ham- ilton [ Longmans ...
... present through Diomedes's description of her " soilure " in 4.1 ; vari- ants of " soil " are insistently used in ... presents a problem of identity which the play fails to solve " ( Shakespeare , trans . Guy Ham- ilton [ Longmans ...
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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