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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... authority may be necessary , but it is also problematic . For Shakespeare's audience , patriar- chal authority was divinely ordained , and it secured the right of princes as well as that of fathers.15 Jessica's dis- regard for that ...
... authority may be necessary , but it is also problematic . For Shakespeare's audience , patriar- chal authority was divinely ordained , and it secured the right of princes as well as that of fathers.15 Jessica's dis- regard for that ...
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... authority , " literally and metaphorically . Far from being the " authority " -the source of the infor- mation told from the perspective of a knowledgeable witness - she retells what someone else has told her about what has transpired ...
... authority , " literally and metaphorically . Far from being the " authority " -the source of the infor- mation told from the perspective of a knowledgeable witness - she retells what someone else has told her about what has transpired ...
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... authority . The scene calls attention to what Robert Weimann terms the " bifold authority " of theatrical performance : the authority of the actor to represent , transform , and limit the authority of a class that was the patron of and ...
... authority . The scene calls attention to what Robert Weimann terms the " bifold authority " of theatrical performance : the authority of the actor to represent , transform , and limit the authority of a class that was the patron of and ...
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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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