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 328
... Palamon and Arcite's words to each other indicate their unwillingness to move beyond boyhood innocence to an acknowledgment and acceptance of human passion . In- stead , Arcite takes peculiar solace in the belief that he and Palamon ...
... Palamon and Arcite's words to each other indicate their unwillingness to move beyond boyhood innocence to an acknowledgment and acceptance of human passion . In- stead , Arcite takes peculiar solace in the belief that he and Palamon ...
Page 333
... Palamon's wish by sen- tencing both knights to death , the young offender's ... Arcite's actions since they first spotted Emilia . Who deserves more or less ... Palamon and Arcite's self - destruction . The Duke , how- ever ...
... Palamon's wish by sen- tencing both knights to death , the young offender's ... Arcite's actions since they first spotted Emilia . Who deserves more or less ... Palamon and Arcite's self - destruction . The Duke , how- ever ...
Page 375
... Palamon and Arcite are just " younger versions of Theseus and Pirithous . " 38 The case of Palamon and Arcite , however , deviates so markedly from Theseus and Pirithous's model friendship that it must be considered a parody of the ...
... Palamon and Arcite are just " younger versions of Theseus and Pirithous . " 38 The case of Palamon and Arcite , however , deviates so markedly from Theseus and Pirithous's model friendship that it must be considered a parody of the ...
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