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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... folly of Hamlet , the madness of Ophel- ia , the professional Yorick ; the natural Touchstone , the melancholic Jaques ; the mad Lear , the professional fool , the masquerading Bedlam ; these , to choose a few only , present various ...
... folly of Hamlet , the madness of Ophel- ia , the professional Yorick ; the natural Touchstone , the melancholic Jaques ; the mad Lear , the professional fool , the masquerading Bedlam ; these , to choose a few only , present various ...
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... folly until the moment of his full power , when at his accession that power is bound . Then his folly re- emerges embodied in the fool actor as jester , who will re - establish his connection to the foolish ground from which he has ...
... folly until the moment of his full power , when at his accession that power is bound . Then his folly re- emerges embodied in the fool actor as jester , who will re - establish his connection to the foolish ground from which he has ...
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... folly of such a belief . Let us now apply this theory of the phenomenology of folly to Touchstone and watch how he cuts off the wit of As You Like It . In three crucial scenes he acts as “ detached commentator upon the action , " as ...
... folly of such a belief . Let us now apply this theory of the phenomenology of folly to Touchstone and watch how he cuts off the wit of As You Like It . In three crucial scenes he acts as “ detached commentator upon the action , " as ...
Contents
Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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