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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Page 155
... becomes apparent in part 1 when Hotspur admits that this monarch " takes on him to reform / Some certain edicts and some strait decrees / That lie too heavy on the commonwealth " ( 4.3.80-82 ) . The specter of a morally unreformed Henry ...
... becomes apparent in part 1 when Hotspur admits that this monarch " takes on him to reform / Some certain edicts and some strait decrees / That lie too heavy on the commonwealth " ( 4.3.80-82 ) . The specter of a morally unreformed Henry ...
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... become distinctly double - edged . 9944 For the chroniclers Henry is " a ruler not Ruling , " and Margaret , in consequence , becomes " quene Mar- garete his wyfe , in whom the whole rule of the realme consisted " ; " The Quene , which ...
... become distinctly double - edged . 9944 For the chroniclers Henry is " a ruler not Ruling , " and Margaret , in consequence , becomes " quene Mar- garete his wyfe , in whom the whole rule of the realme consisted " ; " The Quene , which ...
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... becomes a victim of alternative in- terpretations ; fashioning himself in a letter that seems to reflect the greatness of his own self - image , Malvolio becomes a " propertied " fool when he realizes his ri- diculous part and cross ...
... becomes a victim of alternative in- terpretations ; fashioning himself in a letter that seems to reflect the greatness of his own self - image , Malvolio becomes a " propertied " fool when he realizes his ri- diculous part and cross ...
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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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