Shakespearean CriticismMichelle Lee Cengage 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 166
... heroine , followed by the suicide of the lover , then the heroine's " resurrection , " and finally , a second suicide . This pat- tern confers upon each of the four title characters a role characteristic of the tragic protagonist - that ...
... heroine , followed by the suicide of the lover , then the heroine's " resurrection , " and finally , a second suicide . This pat- tern confers upon each of the four title characters a role characteristic of the tragic protagonist - that ...
Page 245
... heroine's true gender and identity are a " sur- prise , " that is , are not explicitly revealed to the spec- tators ... heroine became less of a focus of atten- tion in her own right and more of a figure in the dramatist's design ...
... heroine's true gender and identity are a " sur- prise , " that is , are not explicitly revealed to the spec- tators ... heroine became less of a focus of atten- tion in her own right and more of a figure in the dramatist's design ...
Page 283
... heroine about her situation . He hands Imogen the letter : Please you read , And you shall find me , wretched man , a thing The most disdain'd of fortune . ( III.iv. 18-20 ) Watching her read it , he thinks , " What shall I need to draw ...
... heroine about her situation . He hands Imogen the letter : Please you read , And you shall find me , wretched man , a thing The most disdain'd of fortune . ( III.iv. 18-20 ) Watching her read it , he thinks , " What shall I need to draw ...
Contents
Deception in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 70 |
Cymbeline | 205 |
Copyright | |
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