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 112
... theatrical nature of existence . The heroes gradually perceive that their lives have the ordered structures of works of art . The exhilarating sense of release in trag- edy seems to me to be exactly the breaking down of the barrier of ...
... theatrical nature of existence . The heroes gradually perceive that their lives have the ordered structures of works of art . The exhilarating sense of release in trag- edy seems to me to be exactly the breaking down of the barrier of ...
Page 144
... theatrical perception " that Antony and Cleopatra requires of its theater audience : to learn to see " character " as an effect of acting . Antony's performance is too " opaque " for Philo ; Antony seems out of character , " comes too ...
... theatrical perception " that Antony and Cleopatra requires of its theater audience : to learn to see " character " as an effect of acting . Antony's performance is too " opaque " for Philo ; Antony seems out of character , " comes too ...
Page 330
... theatrical forms to accommodate new notions of gen- der and identity , and about the inability of the new order to accommodate theatre . It is always perverse to argue for things that are sig- nificant by their absence . And it is ...
... theatrical forms to accommodate new notions of gen- der and identity , and about the inability of the new order to accommodate theatre . It is always perverse to argue for things that are sig- nificant by their absence . And it is ...
Contents
Deception in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 70 |
Cymbeline | 205 |
Copyright | |
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