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 208
... opening scene ; it is Lear's rejection of her that initiates the tragic action ; and during that ensuing , often diffuse , action neither he nor we can ever forget her . The Fool , who is Cordelia's surrogate , does not allow us to ...
... opening scene ; it is Lear's rejection of her that initiates the tragic action ; and during that ensuing , often diffuse , action neither he nor we can ever forget her . The Fool , who is Cordelia's surrogate , does not allow us to ...
Page 276
... opening seems as much a recapitulation of something old as a launch of something new . I would only add that this " other play " might be thought of simply as King Lear , Pt . 1 , in which the genealogy of Lear's susceptibility to ...
... opening seems as much a recapitulation of something old as a launch of something new . I would only add that this " other play " might be thought of simply as King Lear , Pt . 1 , in which the genealogy of Lear's susceptibility to ...
Page 361
... opening of vistas unguessed , not any particular location that is here important " ( The Crown of Life , 250 ) . 5. Tilley , A Dictionary of the Proverbs , 749 . 6. Prospero could be seen as rejecting the ideas of Bacon , just beginning ...
... opening of vistas unguessed , not any particular location that is here important " ( The Crown of Life , 250 ) . 5. Tilley , A Dictionary of the Proverbs , 749 . 6. Prospero could be seen as rejecting the ideas of Bacon , just beginning ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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