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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... called him when he thrust himself head and shoulders into the general's tent during the war in Julius Caesar ; they looked down on the " jigging veins of rhyming mother wits , " as Marlowe called the writing he associated with clowns ...
... called him when he thrust himself head and shoulders into the general's tent during the war in Julius Caesar ; they looked down on the " jigging veins of rhyming mother wits , " as Marlowe called the writing he associated with clowns ...
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... called Tutch and a tavern fool called Stone , would any dramatist create a fool called Touchstone in an absent - minded fit , or as a mere compliment to his new actor's erstwhile apprenticeship to a goldsmith ? Surely not . Shakespeare ...
... called Tutch and a tavern fool called Stone , would any dramatist create a fool called Touchstone in an absent - minded fit , or as a mere compliment to his new actor's erstwhile apprenticeship to a goldsmith ? Surely not . Shakespeare ...
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... called me brother ; and then the two kings called my father brother ; and then the prince , ( my brother ) and the princess ( my sister ) called my father father . ( The Winter's Tale , 5.2.143-147 ) This joy is confirmed and if ...
... called me brother ; and then the two kings called my father brother ; and then the prince , ( my brother ) and the princess ( my sister ) called my father father . ( The Winter's Tale , 5.2.143-147 ) This joy is confirmed and if ...
Contents
Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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