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 109
... sense or that it seems to have a sense that one cannot get at ; one gets stuck in one's inability to deal with it meaningfully at all.20 Touchstone , we should note , is especially full of this last kind of joke , the hidden sense of ...
... sense or that it seems to have a sense that one cannot get at ; one gets stuck in one's inability to deal with it meaningfully at all.20 Touchstone , we should note , is especially full of this last kind of joke , the hidden sense of ...
Page 230
... sense : O nuncle , court holy water in a dry house is better than this rain - water out o'door . Good nuncle , in ask thy daughters blessing . Here's a night pities neither wise men nor fools . ( 3.2.10-12 ) In his delusion , Lear ...
... sense : O nuncle , court holy water in a dry house is better than this rain - water out o'door . Good nuncle , in ask thy daughters blessing . Here's a night pities neither wise men nor fools . ( 3.2.10-12 ) In his delusion , Lear ...
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... sense of closure . ] Despite centuries of the keenest critical analysis , there has been no real consensus on whether the death of King Lear is cathartic in the classical sense , redemp- tive in the medieval sense , retributive in the ...
... sense of closure . ] Despite centuries of the keenest critical analysis , there has been no real consensus on whether the death of King Lear is cathartic in the classical sense , redemp- tive in the medieval sense , retributive in the ...
Contents
Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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