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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... play of Shakespeare's which has a more decided character of unity - no one from which any passages could less easily be struck out . " The date of this appreciation is not insignificant , because the turning point in the play's academic ...
... play of Shakespeare's which has a more decided character of unity - no one from which any passages could less easily be struck out . " The date of this appreciation is not insignificant , because the turning point in the play's academic ...
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... play . Scholars have debated over the sources available to Shakespeare at the time he composed the play and how far he departed from those sources with regard to his play's structure and charac- terization . Further , modern critics ...
... play . Scholars have debated over the sources available to Shakespeare at the time he composed the play and how far he departed from those sources with regard to his play's structure and charac- terization . Further , modern critics ...
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... play's absence from the authoritative First Folio , have led to the play's neglect for most of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- turies . However , recent critics have argued for the play's importance in the canon . Glynne Wickham ...
... play's absence from the authoritative First Folio , have led to the play's neglect for most of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- turies . However , recent critics have argued for the play's importance in the canon . Glynne Wickham ...
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