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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... reason ; this they do , as I have suggested , through Bottom the Weaver . Indeed Bottom himself sounds the keynote of this theme when he says upon meeting Titania : ... to say the truth , reason and love keep little company together now ...
... reason ; this they do , as I have suggested , through Bottom the Weaver . Indeed Bottom himself sounds the keynote of this theme when he says upon meeting Titania : ... to say the truth , reason and love keep little company together now ...
Page 106
... reason and rhetoric . As You Like It demands a radical subjectivity from us : we are " con- jured " to " like as ... reason , yet faith in them is not extinguished in spite of all that reason can do . " But we must also recognize that ...
... reason and rhetoric . As You Like It demands a radical subjectivity from us : we are " con- jured " to " like as ... reason , yet faith in them is not extinguished in spite of all that reason can do . " But we must also recognize that ...
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... reason . The Fool of the first act is still a court jester , but the storm Goneril and Lear create between them forges him so close to Lear as to make them almost one . William Willeford says of the court fool : The fool enriches the ...
... reason . The Fool of the first act is still a court jester , but the storm Goneril and Lear create between them forges him so close to Lear as to make them almost one . William Willeford says of the court fool : The fool enriches the ...
Contents
Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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