Shakespearean CriticismRalph Berry, Graham Bradshaw, William C. Carroll 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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... English traders , Frere and Leavis were accused by Mary May , a Christian investor , who claimed that their Jewishness was a principal cause of her losses . Though much evidence of their " secret practices " was procured from ser- vants ...
... English traders , Frere and Leavis were accused by Mary May , a Christian investor , who claimed that their Jewishness was a principal cause of her losses . Though much evidence of their " secret practices " was procured from ser- vants ...
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... English lives prompts Henry to exclaim , " O God , thy arm was here ! / And not to us , but to thy arm alone , / Ascribe we all " ( 4.8.106-08 ) . " Take it , God , " he concludes , " For it is none but thine " ( 4.8.111- 12 ) .50 " For ...
... English lives prompts Henry to exclaim , " O God , thy arm was here ! / And not to us , but to thy arm alone , / Ascribe we all " ( 4.8.106-08 ) . " Take it , God , " he concludes , " For it is none but thine " ( 4.8.111- 12 ) .50 " For ...
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... English Studies , 21 ( 1991 ) , pp . 1-26 ; and his " Shakespeare's Sonnets as Literary Property , " in Soliciting Interpretation : Literary Theory and Seventeenth - Century English Poetry , ed . Eliza- beth D. Harvey and Katharine ...
... English Studies , 21 ( 1991 ) , pp . 1-26 ; and his " Shakespeare's Sonnets as Literary Property , " in Soliciting Interpretation : Literary Theory and Seventeenth - Century English Poetry , ed . Eliza- beth D. Harvey and Katharine ...
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Representation and Reformation in Measure for Measure | 14 |
Sidney Homann What Do I Do Now? Directing A Midsummer Nights Dream | 23 |
Lisa Hopkins Marriage as Comic Closure | 32 |
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