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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... example , that the play's structure is epic rather than tragic and that the presentation of characters is consistent once that structure is understood . ' It has also been suggested that readers and actors have in the past mistakenly ...
... example , that the play's structure is epic rather than tragic and that the presentation of characters is consistent once that structure is understood . ' It has also been suggested that readers and actors have in the past mistakenly ...
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... example , the creed's declaration ' I beleue one Catholike and Apostolike churche ' ) . Further , Anglican opposition to the Roman Church did not automatically equate with wholesale xenophobia against those who continued to belong to it ...
... example , the creed's declaration ' I beleue one Catholike and Apostolike churche ' ) . Further , Anglican opposition to the Roman Church did not automatically equate with wholesale xenophobia against those who continued to belong to it ...
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... example , a few years ago she rescued Tennessee Williams ' early work Not About Nightingales from oblivion , inspiring a superb produc- tion at the Royal National Theatre of a play that even Williams scholars had written off . Her ...
... example , a few years ago she rescued Tennessee Williams ' early work Not About Nightingales from oblivion , inspiring a superb produc- tion at the Royal National Theatre of a play that even Williams scholars had written off . Her ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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