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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... Oxford . Ophelia was unhappily involved with Hamlet ; De Vere , who grew up as a royal ward in the house- hold of Lord Burghley , was unhappily married to Anne Cecil . Oxford believed that his wife had been unfaith- ful to him while he ...
... Oxford . Ophelia was unhappily involved with Hamlet ; De Vere , who grew up as a royal ward in the house- hold of Lord Burghley , was unhappily married to Anne Cecil . Oxford believed that his wife had been unfaith- ful to him while he ...
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... Oxford wrote the earlier plays for court performance in the 1580s - when Oxford was in his thirties - and that they were later revised for the public theater . Not until 1598 was the name Shake- speare appended to plays . Before then ...
... Oxford wrote the earlier plays for court performance in the 1580s - when Oxford was in his thirties - and that they were later revised for the public theater . Not until 1598 was the name Shake- speare appended to plays . Before then ...
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... Oxford , despite his violent and perverse temper , his eccentric taste in dress , and his reckless waste of his substance , evinced a genuine interest in music , and wrote verses of much lyric beauty . Puttenham and Meres reckon him ...
... Oxford , despite his violent and perverse temper , his eccentric taste in dress , and his reckless waste of his substance , evinced a genuine interest in music , and wrote verses of much lyric beauty . Puttenham and Meres reckon him ...
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