Shakespearean CriticismMichelle Lee Gale Research International, Limited, 1998 - 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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... Italy at first hand , and - more important - had an aristocrat's indifference to business methods and an aristocrat's casual regard for material possessions . It is difficult to escape the conclusion that snobbery led Looney , a gentle ...
... Italy at first hand , and - more important - had an aristocrat's indifference to business methods and an aristocrat's casual regard for material possessions . It is difficult to escape the conclusion that snobbery led Looney , a gentle ...
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... Italy was extraordinary , " the historian Hugh Trevor - Roper wrote . " An English scholar who lived in Venice has found his visual topographic exactitude in The Merchant of Venice incredible in one who had never been there . " Edmund ...
... Italy was extraordinary , " the historian Hugh Trevor - Roper wrote . " An English scholar who lived in Venice has found his visual topographic exactitude in The Merchant of Venice incredible in one who had never been there . " Edmund ...
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... Italy , and Bethell finds scholarly support for Shakespeare's familiarity with its topography . But somehow we find nothing of its people in the plays set in Italy ; Shakespeare's charac- ters are always of contemporary England . But ...
... Italy , and Bethell finds scholarly support for Shakespeare's familiarity with its topography . But somehow we find nothing of its people in the plays set in Italy ; Shakespeare's charac- ters are always of contemporary England . But ...
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