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 134
... moral design . As Spedding himself put it , the play offers ' little else than the ultimate triumph of wrong ' . In no other play of Shakespeare's does it hap- pen that ' the moral sympathy of the spectator is not carried along with the ...
... moral design . As Spedding himself put it , the play offers ' little else than the ultimate triumph of wrong ' . In no other play of Shakespeare's does it hap- pen that ' the moral sympathy of the spectator is not carried along with the ...
Page 137
... moral point of view.63 Frye sees opposed and unreconciled elements within the play , but he regards them as part of the corrosive irony which runs through it , an irony that has almost a comic dimension . The play becomes ' a sinister ...
... moral point of view.63 Frye sees opposed and unreconciled elements within the play , but he regards them as part of the corrosive irony which runs through it , an irony that has almost a comic dimension . The play becomes ' a sinister ...
Page 334
... moral sense of good . We may not be used to discussing Fletcherian dialogue so subtly , but the implicit contrast between honor and goodness demands such an understanding . Second , Fletcher suggests at several moments in his subplot ...
... moral sense of good . We may not be used to discussing Fletcherian dialogue so subtly , but the implicit contrast between honor and goodness demands such an understanding . Second , Fletcher suggests at several moments in his subplot ...
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