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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Page 293
... Night's Dream , " and noticed the use made of hunting in both plays . A century later Walter Skeat , when editing the play , stated in his notes " the whole scene is copied from A Midsummer Night's Dream " . Midway between Seward and ...
... Night's Dream , " and noticed the use made of hunting in both plays . A century later Walter Skeat , when editing the play , stated in his notes " the whole scene is copied from A Midsummer Night's Dream " . Midway between Seward and ...
Page 295
... Midsummer Night's Dream , into the woods near Athens in pursuit of Lysander where hard words are brought to blows . To these same woods the authors of The Two Noble Kinsmen now bring Palamon and Arcite ; the latter as an outlaw banished ...
... Midsummer Night's Dream , into the woods near Athens in pursuit of Lysander where hard words are brought to blows . To these same woods the authors of The Two Noble Kinsmen now bring Palamon and Arcite ; the latter as an outlaw banished ...
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... Midsummer Night's Dream , Part II ' , in view of both plays ' common basis in Chaucer's Knight's Tale , the source of Midsummer Night's Dream's Theseus- Hippolyta frame and , less obviously , the central ' dream ' panel of the lovers ...
... Midsummer Night's Dream , Part II ' , in view of both plays ' common basis in Chaucer's Knight's Tale , the source of Midsummer Night's Dream's Theseus- Hippolyta frame and , less obviously , the central ' dream ' panel of the lovers ...
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