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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... claim of authorship . Anti - Stratfordians focus on the discrepancies between the life of Shakespeare and the literary mind that cre- ated the plays and poems . These critics point to ab- sences in public records and to the writings of ...
... claim of authorship . Anti - Stratfordians focus on the discrepancies between the life of Shakespeare and the literary mind that cre- ated the plays and poems . These critics point to ab- sences in public records and to the writings of ...
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... claim ( inserted parenthetically ) that Oxford was not a man of the theater . Any evi- dence here ? Oxford's comedies were praised by Meres , and he was the patron of two acting companies . The praise that Matus heaps on Shakespeare the ...
... claim ( inserted parenthetically ) that Oxford was not a man of the theater . Any evi- dence here ? Oxford's comedies were praised by Meres , and he was the patron of two acting companies . The praise that Matus heaps on Shakespeare the ...
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... claim to no legal expertise myself , I rely very largely for my criticism of this part of the Baconian case on J. M. Robertson , who was not only a great Elizabethan scholar , but spent five years of his life in a lawyer's office . He ...
... claim to no legal expertise myself , I rely very largely for my criticism of this part of the Baconian case on J. M. Robertson , who was not only a great Elizabethan scholar , but spent five years of his life in a lawyer's office . He ...
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