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 78
... death and the fool in litera- ture before Shakespeare see Barbara Swain , Fools and Folly ( New York : Columbia University Press , 1932 ) , pp . 42 ff . Salingar sees Death as the " supreme ' antic ' in Hamlet ( The Age of Shakespeare ...
... death and the fool in litera- ture before Shakespeare see Barbara Swain , Fools and Folly ( New York : Columbia University Press , 1932 ) , pp . 42 ff . Salingar sees Death as the " supreme ' antic ' in Hamlet ( The Age of Shakespeare ...
Page 79
... death and life finds an analogue in the comedy of Christian redemption in medieval and Renaissance thought . For death not only provides a portal to eternal life and an agon to test sincerity of belief , but also , by showing people ...
... death and life finds an analogue in the comedy of Christian redemption in medieval and Renaissance thought . For death not only provides a portal to eternal life and an agon to test sincerity of belief , but also , by showing people ...
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... death , signaling Macbeth's irreversible move- ment towards destruction . The porter , however , with his humorous role - playing and indecent puns , is just as surely a figure of life . Macduff's persistent knock- ing and the porter's ...
... death , signaling Macbeth's irreversible move- ment towards destruction . The porter , however , with his humorous role - playing and indecent puns , is just as surely a figure of life . Macduff's persistent knock- ing and the porter's ...
Contents
Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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