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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... question , never finally resolved , conditions . our emotional involvement . And how can one respond conditionally to tragedy ? The complex response that Buckingham's downfall asks of us reflects an allegiance to two kinds of truth ...
... question , never finally resolved , conditions . our emotional involvement . And how can one respond conditionally to tragedy ? The complex response that Buckingham's downfall asks of us reflects an allegiance to two kinds of truth ...
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... question ; nor is there any question of the human desires that the play engages . -Jonathan Goldberg ( 1987 ) 243 Someone who has not kept up with current critical trends may have to be told that the statement in my second epigraph is ...
... question ; nor is there any question of the human desires that the play engages . -Jonathan Goldberg ( 1987 ) 243 Someone who has not kept up with current critical trends may have to be told that the statement in my second epigraph is ...
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... question of what is worst naturally reflects the question of what is bad . All bad or unpleasant experi- ences reawaken our primitive disappointment at the discovery that we are not identical with nature . Cord- elia's fault in the ...
... question of what is worst naturally reflects the question of what is bad . All bad or unpleasant experi- ences reawaken our primitive disappointment at the discovery that we are not identical with nature . Cord- elia's fault in the ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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