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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... stage are liable to be asked all sorts of questions , and are forced to answer for themselves . " Simply , Shakespeare had the power to make a well - rehearsed actor seem spontaneous , even unpredictable the power to improvise a life ...
... stage are liable to be asked all sorts of questions , and are forced to answer for themselves . " Simply , Shakespeare had the power to make a well - rehearsed actor seem spontaneous , even unpredictable the power to improvise a life ...
Page 298
... stage direction , Here Musicke is heard , Doves are seene to flutter ; they fall againe upon their faces , then on their knees , to which he responds with the famous lines , O thou , that from eleven to ninetie raign'st In mortall ...
... stage direction , Here Musicke is heard , Doves are seene to flutter ; they fall againe upon their faces , then on their knees , to which he responds with the famous lines , O thou , that from eleven to ninetie raign'st In mortall ...
Page 327
... stage , even though the drama remains separate and distinct from reality.13 This sense that , as history , poetry is conceived to imitate the unique and individual rather than the general , and the simultaneous divorcing of the stage ...
... stage , even though the drama remains separate and distinct from reality.13 This sense that , as history , poetry is conceived to imitate the unique and individual rather than the general , and the simultaneous divorcing of the stage ...
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