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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... story - telling by turning them all into bats . Actually , Ovid's ' Pyramus and Thisbe ' is merely one of a series of embedded stories . The framing tale of Bacchus and Pentheus is itself a recursive episode within the larger story of ...
... story - telling by turning them all into bats . Actually , Ovid's ' Pyramus and Thisbe ' is merely one of a series of embedded stories . The framing tale of Bacchus and Pentheus is itself a recursive episode within the larger story of ...
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... story of the play was so in- tense that in Garrick's highly popular afterpiece Catherine and Petruchio , The Taming of the Shrew was whittled down to the taming story tout seul , a sentimentalized ver- sion of The Shrew with no Sly , no ...
... story of the play was so in- tense that in Garrick's highly popular afterpiece Catherine and Petruchio , The Taming of the Shrew was whittled down to the taming story tout seul , a sentimentalized ver- sion of The Shrew with no Sly , no ...
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... story has lasted . But reputation is not as important as she thinks ( even as the poet seeks his ) because language changes and so alters the story . She exhorts time to curse Tarquin as she sets out in her narrative ( 967 ff ...
... story has lasted . But reputation is not as important as she thinks ( even as the poet seeks his ) because language changes and so alters the story . She exhorts time to curse Tarquin as she sets out in her narrative ( 967 ff ...
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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