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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... role of scourge and the role of minister are very different from each other and do not coexist in the same actor . A scourge is a damned instrument of divine justice whose fitness for a dam- nable role is due to a corruption for which ...
... role of scourge and the role of minister are very different from each other and do not coexist in the same actor . A scourge is a damned instrument of divine justice whose fitness for a dam- nable role is due to a corruption for which ...
Page 292
... role as proto - tyrant , Tarquin seems deliberately represented in accord with Plato's account of the tyrannical ... role as Platonic tyrant figure in relation to her . As I have suggested previously , one such expres- sion of his role ...
... role as proto - tyrant , Tarquin seems deliberately represented in accord with Plato's account of the tyrannical ... role as Platonic tyrant figure in relation to her . As I have suggested previously , one such expres- sion of his role ...
Page 294
... role , over Collatine ( lines 7-14 ) . According to the narrator , moreover , a struggle between " beauty and virtue " ( line 52 ) as to which " should underprop [ Lucrece's ] fame " ( line 53 ) can be seen in the " silent war of lilies ...
... role , over Collatine ( lines 7-14 ) . According to the narrator , moreover , a struggle between " beauty and virtue " ( line 52 ) as to which " should underprop [ Lucrece's ] fame " ( line 53 ) can be seen in the " silent war of lilies ...
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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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