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 244
... role and a place which anticipate Lear's role and place after he flees from his daughters , that is , a madman's , exposed to barren nature and its fierce storm . Judging by the naïveté with which he falls into Edmund's trap early in ...
... role and a place which anticipate Lear's role and place after he flees from his daughters , that is , a madman's , exposed to barren nature and its fierce storm . Judging by the naïveté with which he falls into Edmund's trap early in ...
Page 249
... role - playing . His roles are as easily and completely put on and off as the costume or vizor they depend on : " Edgar I nothing am " ( II.ii.21 ) . They are mere expedients contrived for the temporary purpose of preserving himself ...
... role - playing . His roles are as easily and completely put on and off as the costume or vizor they depend on : " Edgar I nothing am " ( II.ii.21 ) . They are mere expedients contrived for the temporary purpose of preserving himself ...
Page 315
... role often reserved for black actors . In the all - white theatri- cal world of the 1940s and ' 50s , few parts were open to members of minority groups . Caliban , an alien creature , could be played by a black man ; the strangeness ...
... role often reserved for black actors . In the all - white theatri- cal world of the 1940s and ' 50s , few parts were open to members of minority groups . Caliban , an alien creature , could be played by a black man ; the strangeness ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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