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 191
... says that the ' butcher's cur ' is ' venom- mouth'd ' ( I.i.120 ) —that is to say , poisonous in his slander of him . ' I Have not the power to muzzle him ' ( I.i.120-21 ) , Buckingham admits . Queen Katherine later confirms ...
... says that the ' butcher's cur ' is ' venom- mouth'd ' ( I.i.120 ) —that is to say , poisonous in his slander of him . ' I Have not the power to muzzle him ' ( I.i.120-21 ) , Buckingham admits . Queen Katherine later confirms ...
Page 246
... says hardly anything about the Bastard ; he says too much about Arthur . Here , Shakespeare's principal source did not make up its mind and jumbled together a series of inconsistent explanations of Arthur's death . Instead of choosing ...
... says hardly anything about the Bastard ; he says too much about Arthur . Here , Shakespeare's principal source did not make up its mind and jumbled together a series of inconsistent explanations of Arthur's death . Instead of choosing ...
Page 328
... say they could . . . . ( II.ii.62-67 ) 18 Then Arcite , in a speech bearing a remarkable and suggestive similarity to that of Richard II in prison , claims that they will be an " endless mine to one an- other , " for , as he says , We ...
... say they could . . . . ( II.ii.62-67 ) 18 Then Arcite , in a speech bearing a remarkable and suggestive similarity to that of Richard II in prison , claims that they will be an " endless mine to one an- other , " for , as he says , We ...
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