Shakespearean CriticismCengage Gale, 1999 - 420 pages 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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Page 51
... accept his rejection ; it is because he expresses such a positive answer that we find it so intolerable . Unquestionably , Shakespeare invented him in order to create doubt , and the answer to that doubt was to be Henry V ; but Falstaff ...
... accept his rejection ; it is because he expresses such a positive answer that we find it so intolerable . Unquestionably , Shakespeare invented him in order to create doubt , and the answer to that doubt was to be Henry V ; but Falstaff ...
Page 110
... accept the very contradiction we dismiss . For Touch- stone's explanation of where he learned that mere " oath " depends on an oath : namely , the conventions of logical discourse . No argument can proceed unless all parties accept its ...
... accept the very contradiction we dismiss . For Touch- stone's explanation of where he learned that mere " oath " depends on an oath : namely , the conventions of logical discourse . No argument can proceed unless all parties accept its ...
Page 111
... accept his conse- quent as true - indeed he is a knave ; but he has ma- nipulated them into accepting a false conditional- obviously they have no beards . They have accepted Touchstone's premise and sworn " by that that is not . " Of ...
... accept his conse- quent as true - indeed he is a knave ; but he has ma- nipulated them into accepting a false conditional- obviously they have no beards . They have accepted Touchstone's premise and sworn " by that that is not . " Of ...
Contents
Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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