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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... plays were considered things of slight literary merit . In 1612 Sir Thomas Bodley , the founder of the famous Bodleian Library , at Oxford , took the library's keeper to task for cata- loguing " riffraffs , " a category that included plays ...
... plays were considered things of slight literary merit . In 1612 Sir Thomas Bodley , the founder of the famous Bodleian Library , at Oxford , took the library's keeper to task for cata- loguing " riffraffs , " a category that included plays ...
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... Shakespeare plays , like the Baconians and Oxfordians , Hoffman cannot resist searching for an ' I wrote Shakespeare's plays ' cipher . However , his main line of argument link- ing Marlowe with the Shakespeare plays is far more ...
... Shakespeare plays , like the Baconians and Oxfordians , Hoffman cannot resist searching for an ' I wrote Shakespeare's plays ' cipher . However , his main line of argument link- ing Marlowe with the Shakespeare plays is far more ...
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... plays ( 28 in The Humourous Lieutenant ) . Its occurrence in certain of Shakespeare's plays ( e.g. , The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline [ 20 times each ] , All's Well [ 14 times ] ) matches the use to which Fletcher puts it in certain of ...
... plays ( 28 in The Humourous Lieutenant ) . Its occurrence in certain of Shakespeare's plays ( e.g. , The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline [ 20 times each ] , All's Well [ 14 times ] ) matches the use to which Fletcher puts it in certain of ...
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