Shakespearean CriticismCengage Gale, 2003 - 464 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 47
... effect the observation still fails to account for the unusual dramaturgy that produces that effect . What we lack is a thoroughgoing explanation for Shakespeare's artistic choice of royal spectacle and pageantry in his last play ...
... effect the observation still fails to account for the unusual dramaturgy that produces that effect . What we lack is a thoroughgoing explanation for Shakespeare's artistic choice of royal spectacle and pageantry in his last play ...
Page 248
... effect as one of mutual reinforcement . The Gloucester subplot , that is , works " to enact and express a further aspect of the Lear experience . " It now becomes clearer how the Christianity Shakespeare has apparently taken pains to ...
... effect as one of mutual reinforcement . The Gloucester subplot , that is , works " to enact and express a further aspect of the Lear experience . " It now becomes clearer how the Christianity Shakespeare has apparently taken pains to ...
Page 356
... effect of his magic is what was important all along that Prospero says goodbye to his spirits and promises " I'll drown my book " ( 57 ) . For Ariel notices what we did at the end of act 3 , scene 3 : " Your charm so strongly works ' em ...
... effect of his magic is what was important all along that Prospero says goodbye to his spirits and promises " I'll drown my book " ( 57 ) . For Ariel notices what we did at the end of act 3 , scene 3 : " Your charm so strongly works ' em ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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