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 172
... imagination , Leontes recognizes , may deal in mere conjecture . Thus , damping down his suspicions , he tells himself that his imagination " fellow [ s ] noth- ing . " But then , a moment later , a fresh suspicion is engendered . In ...
... imagination , Leontes recognizes , may deal in mere conjecture . Thus , damping down his suspicions , he tells himself that his imagination " fellow [ s ] noth- ing . " But then , a moment later , a fresh suspicion is engendered . In ...
Page 173
... imagination infected by morbid eroticism - that conjured , in its own image , the figure of Hermione the temptress . Now imagination subserving a guilty conscience conjures an antithetical image , yet one which curiously produces an ...
... imagination infected by morbid eroticism - that conjured , in its own image , the figure of Hermione the temptress . Now imagination subserving a guilty conscience conjures an antithetical image , yet one which curiously produces an ...
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... imagination or , more generally , a symbol of man's higher imaginative powers ; as the beneficent spirit or daemon of the elements in Hebrew or Neo - platonic tradition ; and as the fairy creature sometimes reported in the travel ...
... imagination or , more generally , a symbol of man's higher imaginative powers ; as the beneficent spirit or daemon of the elements in Hebrew or Neo - platonic tradition ; and as the fairy creature sometimes reported in the travel ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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