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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... critics , except for those engaged in the at times heated debate over the true nature of its authorship . Included in the First Folio of the dramatist's works , Henry VIII is often seen as the product of two indi- viduals : Shakespeare ...
... critics , except for those engaged in the at times heated debate over the true nature of its authorship . Included in the First Folio of the dramatist's works , Henry VIII is often seen as the product of two indi- viduals : Shakespeare ...
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... critics have speculated on the extent to which Elizabethan politics and current events might have influenced the playwright's treatment of such issues as succession , legitimacy , and loyalty to the crown . The two sources most ...
... critics have speculated on the extent to which Elizabethan politics and current events might have influenced the playwright's treatment of such issues as succession , legitimacy , and loyalty to the crown . The two sources most ...
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... critics have argued for the play's importance in the canon . Glynne Wickham ( 1980 ) cites several themes in the play that continue the thoughts of A Midsummer Night's Dream . Other crit- ics , such as Cyrus Hoy ( 1962 ) and C. H. ...
... critics have argued for the play's importance in the canon . Glynne Wickham ( 1980 ) cites several themes in the play that continue the thoughts of A Midsummer Night's Dream . Other crit- ics , such as Cyrus Hoy ( 1962 ) and C. H. ...
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