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 303
... reason determines what is good and what is evil and informs the will of its conclusions . The will because of an instinct implanted in it by God , desires the good and abhors the evil which the reason represents to it . . . . When the ...
... reason determines what is good and what is evil and informs the will of its conclusions . The will because of an instinct implanted in it by God , desires the good and abhors the evil which the reason represents to it . . . . When the ...
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... reason over passion that most clearly links him with the contempo- rary view of the nature of man and human happiness . As Sir Thomas More had observed of his Utopians , they thought true felicity to consist in virture , and virtue to ...
... reason over passion that most clearly links him with the contempo- rary view of the nature of man and human happiness . As Sir Thomas More had observed of his Utopians , they thought true felicity to consist in virture , and virtue to ...
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... reason , overcomes passion and permits the return to reliance on spirit and control of flesh . Ariel returns im- mediately with the return of reason to Prospero . And although the masque itself does not return , although it is merely ...
... reason , overcomes passion and permits the return to reliance on spirit and control of flesh . Ariel returns im- mediately with the return of reason to Prospero . And although the masque itself does not return , although it is merely ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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