Shakespearean CriticismMichele Lee Gale Research International, Limited, 1998 - 412 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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... Desdemona presented in the play offer a compendium of tradi- tional deleterious feminine stereotypes . For Desdemona , whether adored or reviled , honored or battered , remains the play's cynosure , and like the colored glass in a ...
... Desdemona presented in the play offer a compendium of tradi- tional deleterious feminine stereotypes . For Desdemona , whether adored or reviled , honored or battered , remains the play's cynosure , and like the colored glass in a ...
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... Desdemona their individual fantasies concerning the opposite sex . She becomes their fetish or their scapegoat , and their perceptions of her tell us more . about their own needs and fears than about Desdemona herself ( Garner 1976 ) ...
... Desdemona their individual fantasies concerning the opposite sex . She becomes their fetish or their scapegoat , and their perceptions of her tell us more . about their own needs and fears than about Desdemona herself ( Garner 1976 ) ...
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... Desdemona does not display the conventionality asso- ciated with the battered wife . Indeed , many commen- tators have found unconvincing Desdemona's change from the courageous , self - confident , candid , young , woman in the opening ...
... Desdemona does not display the conventionality asso- ciated with the battered wife . Indeed , many commen- tators have found unconvincing Desdemona's change from the courageous , self - confident , candid , young , woman in the opening ...
Contents
Violence in Shakespeares Works | 1 |
The Rape of Lucrece | 77 |
Titus Andronicus | 169 |
Copyright | |
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