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 97
... things that nature gives us may , in a contingent universe , suffer harm , the fathers should arrange things in the world to pro- tect them . The role of convention is to protect and foster nature's goods . The fathers are entrusted ...
... things that nature gives us may , in a contingent universe , suffer harm , the fathers should arrange things in the world to pro- tect them . The role of convention is to protect and foster nature's goods . The fathers are entrusted ...
Page 184
... things , and the causes of them all . What is more plau- sible than to believe that this natural man would be in touch with nature or have a natural understanding of nature ? For it is nature that Lear himself has discov- ered in his ...
... things , and the causes of them all . What is more plau- sible than to believe that this natural man would be in touch with nature or have a natural understanding of nature ? For it is nature that Lear himself has discov- ered in his ...
Page 215
... things past and hints of things to come . When Kent comes to offer Lear shelter in a hovel , Lear becomes truly aware of his Fool for the first time since I.iv , but as a fellow human being rather than his jester . The Fool answers with ...
... things past and hints of things to come . When Kent comes to offer Lear shelter in a hovel , Lear becomes truly aware of his Fool for the first time since I.iv , but as a fellow human being rather than his jester . The Fool answers with ...
Contents
Shakespeares Clowns and Fools | 1 |
As You Like | 87 |
King Lear | 176 |
Copyright | |
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