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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 87
Page 99
... language , which some critics refer to as tainted , shows him almost incapable of seeing Hermione as more or less than a vagina . The vocabulary that keeps driving to the surface of his speech is that of sexual abuse , the language he ...
... language , which some critics refer to as tainted , shows him almost incapable of seeing Hermione as more or less than a vagina . The vocabulary that keeps driving to the surface of his speech is that of sexual abuse , the language he ...
Page 217
... language traces elaborate conceits of thematic bearing and a ceremonial description that of- fers itself as a part of its own gentleness . It is lettered artifice : a flourish of metaphors , an effort to state Cord- elia's full worth as ...
... language traces elaborate conceits of thematic bearing and a ceremonial description that of- fers itself as a part of its own gentleness . It is lettered artifice : a flourish of metaphors , an effort to state Cord- elia's full worth as ...
Page 222
... language that it lives in . A gesture of direction is made , " Look there , " and we reach it - there is no other way - by means of the ripe lip , simples , and soft voice of interpretation . " Death may end the lady but not other ...
... language that it lives in . A gesture of direction is made , " Look there , " and we reach it - there is no other way - by means of the ripe lip , simples , and soft voice of interpretation . " Death may end the lady but not other ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action Alonso Anne Antonio argues Ariel audience becomes Brabantio Buckingham Caliban Cassio character Christian conscience Cordelia Cranmer critics Cymbeline daughter death Desdemona dramatic Edgar Elizabeth English essay evil fantasy father feel Ferdinand Fool Gloucester Gloucester's Goneril Gonzalo heart Henry VIII Henry's Hermione Holinshed human Iago Iago's imagination interpretation Jacobean James jealous jealousy Katherine Katherine's Kent Kent's King Lear king's language Lear's Leontes lines London madness magic marriage masque meaning ment Miranda moral nature ness Othello passion play play's plot political Polixenes Press Prospero Prospero's Books Queen Regan Renaissance Richard III role royal says scene seems sense sexual Shake Shakespeare Quarterly sion soul speaks speare speare's speech spirit stage Stephano storm story suggests Sycorax Tempest theatre theatrical thee theme things thou tion tragedy tragic Trinculo truth Univ vision wife Wilson Knight Winter's Tale Wolsey Wolsey's wonder words York