Shakespearean CriticismPresents 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 76
... Lear's deaths , the nature of the king's insanity , the comic element of the play , and the Gloucester sub - plot have consis- tently interested scholars throughout King Lear's crit- ical history . Twentieth - century criticism has ...
... Lear's deaths , the nature of the king's insanity , the comic element of the play , and the Gloucester sub - plot have consis- tently interested scholars throughout King Lear's crit- ical history . Twentieth - century criticism has ...
Page 133
... Lear's increas- ing self - discovery , Jorgensen focuses on Lear's views of female sexuality , which bring him to a fuller under- standing of human nature . ] ARE YOU OUR DAUGHTER ? Lear's education in the nature of man is . . . not ...
... Lear's increas- ing self - discovery , Jorgensen focuses on Lear's views of female sexuality , which bring him to a fuller under- standing of human nature . ] ARE YOU OUR DAUGHTER ? Lear's education in the nature of man is . . . not ...
Page 141
... Lear is permitted , as Othello is not , to reunite with her while she is still alive and to ask her forgive- ness . This is not to say that Lear's reconciliation with Cord- elia is entirely positive ; on the contrary , it is irredeem ...
... Lear is permitted , as Othello is not , to reunite with her while she is still alive and to ask her forgive- ness . This is not to say that Lear's reconciliation with Cord- elia is entirely positive ; on the contrary , it is irredeem ...
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Women in Shakespeare | 1 |
King Lear | 75 |
The Taming of the Shrew | 260 |
Copyright | |
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