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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... history , tragedy , and masque . ] Although admittedly a modest play by Shakespearean standards , Henry VIII has been subjected to criticism which seems to me undeservedly severe . Its structure has been condemned as episodic , its ...
... history , tragedy , and masque . ] Although admittedly a modest play by Shakespearean standards , Henry VIII has been subjected to criticism which seems to me undeservedly severe . Its structure has been condemned as episodic , its ...
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... play a form of discourse related to and dependent upon its audience's perceptions of such issues , as Yates , Wickham and others propose ? Or are these contextual matters peripheral to the ge- neric qualities of Morality , history play ...
... play a form of discourse related to and dependent upon its audience's perceptions of such issues , as Yates , Wickham and others propose ? Or are these contextual matters peripheral to the ge- neric qualities of Morality , history play ...
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... history plays , we typically but wrongly treat the chronicles as sources of a different color . Making Comedy of Errors from Menaechmi , or Measure for Measure from Promos and Cassandra , or a history play from Hall and Holinshed , Foxe ...
... history plays , we typically but wrongly treat the chronicles as sources of a different color . Making Comedy of Errors from Menaechmi , or Measure for Measure from Promos and Cassandra , or a history play from Hall and Holinshed , Foxe ...
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