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 132
... sexual overtones . The allusion to homosexuality is there when Hymen informs Phebe of an alternative . “ Or have a woman to your lord " ( V.iv.133 ) , he says , and whether one interprets that as comic absurdity or alternative , the ...
... sexual overtones . The allusion to homosexuality is there when Hymen informs Phebe of an alternative . “ Or have a woman to your lord " ( V.iv.133 ) , he says , and whether one interprets that as comic absurdity or alternative , the ...
Page 151
... sexual contact with a man only " if " he were a woman , which he is not , even if he has just played one and even if ... sexual ideology of the Epilogue might exceed the text's explicit attempt to reassert heteroerotic desire . Weren't ...
... sexual contact with a man only " if " he were a woman , which he is not , even if he has just played one and even if ... sexual ideology of the Epilogue might exceed the text's explicit attempt to reassert heteroerotic desire . Weren't ...
Page 359
... sexual lewdness at all , but " social lewdness " mythically expressed in sexual terms . ' If feminist writers in the 1970s ignored problems of class ( Paula Berggren , ' The woman's part : female sexuality as power in Shakespeare's ...
... sexual lewdness at all , but " social lewdness " mythically expressed in sexual terms . ' If feminist writers in the 1970s ignored problems of class ( Paula Berggren , ' The woman's part : female sexuality as power in Shakespeare's ...
Contents
Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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