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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... tell what thou art by inches , thou thing of no bowels " ( 2.1.49-50 ) . Since Ajax beats him anyway , Thersites tells Achilles what Ajax is " by inches , " tells him that Ajax " wears his wit in his belly " and " Has not so much wit ...
... tell what thou art by inches , thou thing of no bowels " ( 2.1.49-50 ) . Since Ajax beats him anyway , Thersites tells Achilles what Ajax is " by inches , " tells him that Ajax " wears his wit in his belly " and " Has not so much wit ...
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... tell him the truth about her adultery and his bas- tardy . To her importantly worded question - ' Must I ac- cuse ... tells him quite matter - of - factly that she was ' By long and vehement suit . . . seduced ' and that he is indeed ...
... tell him the truth about her adultery and his bas- tardy . To her importantly worded question - ' Must I ac- cuse ... tells him quite matter - of - factly that she was ' By long and vehement suit . . . seduced ' and that he is indeed ...
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... tells a brief story about this captain in another of his young man's " saws " ( see 244 ) . Personifications of fear and desire follow , and later he humanizes Lucrece's glove by imagining it to be chaste . No matter how much he tells ...
... tells a brief story about this captain in another of his young man's " saws " ( see 244 ) . Personifications of fear and desire follow , and later he humanizes Lucrece's glove by imagining it to be chaste . No matter how much he tells ...
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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