Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 7Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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... essay are given at the beginning of each piece . For an anonymous essay later attributed to a critic , the critic's name appears in brackets at the beginning of the excerpt and in the bibliographical citation . Within the text of the ...
... essay are given at the beginning of each piece . For an anonymous essay later attributed to a critic , the critic's name appears in brackets at the beginning of the excerpt and in the bibliographical citation . Within the text of the ...
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... Essay on Trag- edy , " in his Critical Essays on Dramatic Poetry , L. Davis and C. Reymers , 1761 , pp . 1-33 . WILLIAM SMITH ( essay date 1740 ) [ A noted classical scholar , Smith is best known for his translations of such Greek ...
... Essay on Trag- edy , " in his Critical Essays on Dramatic Poetry , L. Davis and C. Reymers , 1761 , pp . 1-33 . WILLIAM SMITH ( essay date 1740 ) [ A noted classical scholar , Smith is best known for his translations of such Greek ...
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... ( essay date 1619 ) [ Jonson , one of the most prominent Elizabethan playwrights , is thought to have been Shakespeare's principal rival as a writer of comedies . Yet he was also Shakespeare's close friend and , in his preface to the ...
... ( essay date 1619 ) [ Jonson , one of the most prominent Elizabethan playwrights , is thought to have been Shakespeare's principal rival as a writer of comedies . Yet he was also Shakespeare's close friend and , in his preface to the ...
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