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 107
... fact , " be it physical , social , psychological , or linguistic fact . " The conventional notion of the " wise fool , " Willeford cautions us , reveals the nature of the Fool only to conceal it . Duke Senior's praise of Touchstone is ...
... fact , " be it physical , social , psychological , or linguistic fact . " The conventional notion of the " wise fool , " Willeford cautions us , reveals the nature of the Fool only to conceal it . Duke Senior's praise of Touchstone is ...
Page 109
... fact utter a profound comic truth : we are actual beings in an actual world . We must admit , however , that we formu- late this statement after the fact of utterance , and as if to rescue our short - circuited expectations ; Touchstone ...
... fact utter a profound comic truth : we are actual beings in an actual world . We must admit , however , that we formu- late this statement after the fact of utterance , and as if to rescue our short - circuited expectations ; Touchstone ...
Page 362
... fact that , as a literary critical exercise , we may attempt to recover an author's meaning , is the fact that this mean- ing is effectively dead . What an author intended , or even meant to his or her contemporary public and first ...
... fact that , as a literary critical exercise , we may attempt to recover an author's meaning , is the fact that this mean- ing is effectively dead . What an author intended , or even meant to his or her contemporary public and first ...
Contents
Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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