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 109
... audience , " and glosses the audience's tragic pleasure as " The idle habit of inforced sorrow " : " The Crosse [ Christ's ] stage was , and he plaid the part / Of one that for his friend did pawne his heart " ( lines 889-94 ) . Citing ...
... audience , " and glosses the audience's tragic pleasure as " The idle habit of inforced sorrow " : " The Crosse [ Christ's ] stage was , and he plaid the part / Of one that for his friend did pawne his heart " ( lines 889-94 ) . Citing ...
Page 224
... audience is underlined before the gates of Angiers , where scaffolding on the battlements is really scaffolding in the theater , and citizens in the audience stand as citizens of Angiers : As in a theatre , whence they gape and point At ...
... audience is underlined before the gates of Angiers , where scaffolding on the battlements is really scaffolding in the theater , and citizens in the audience stand as citizens of Angiers : As in a theatre , whence they gape and point At ...
Page 338
... audience understands it and less defined as to the characters ' own time and place , the stage would function , as did Shakespeare's stage , to present the character as a larger - than - life rep- resentative of the audience's own world ...
... audience understands it and less defined as to the characters ' own time and place , the stage would function , as did Shakespeare's stage , to present the character as a larger - than - life rep- resentative of the audience's own world ...
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