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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... suffering that is the play's peculiar concern . In his most famous soliloquy Hamlet speaks of the " heartache " of ... suffering in King Lear has often been compared to the Book of Job , which , of course , focuses upon the suffering of ...
... suffering that is the play's peculiar concern . In his most famous soliloquy Hamlet speaks of the " heartache " of ... suffering in King Lear has often been compared to the Book of Job , which , of course , focuses upon the suffering of ...
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... suffer never really comes to terms with the suffering that is produced by death , the one event in human life , besides birth , that is ineluctable and universal . 5. See especially John Holloway , The Story of the Night ( Lincoln ...
... suffer never really comes to terms with the suffering that is produced by death , the one event in human life , besides birth , that is ineluctable and universal . 5. See especially John Holloway , The Story of the Night ( Lincoln ...
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... suffering . As everyone knows , all of Shakespeare's immediate sources - the old play King Leir , Holinshed's Chronicles , Spenser's Faerie Queene , and A Mirror for Magistrates - present Lear and Cord- elia triumphant at last , with ...
... suffering . As everyone knows , all of Shakespeare's immediate sources - the old play King Leir , Holinshed's Chronicles , Spenser's Faerie Queene , and A Mirror for Magistrates - present Lear and Cord- elia triumphant at last , with ...
Contents
The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
Copyright | |
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