Shakespeare's HistoriesEmma Smith This Guide steers students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s history plays, enhancing their enjoyment and broadening their critical repertoire.
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... speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted; and to justify mine own candour: for I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side ...
... speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted; and to justify mine own candour: for I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side ...
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... Speeches been printed without the very names of the Persons, I believe one might have apply'd them with certainty to every speaker. (1723: I, ii–iii) Pope praises Shakespeare's 'Power over our Passions' (I, iii), and 10 The Development ...
... Speeches been printed without the very names of the Persons, I believe one might have apply'd them with certainty to every speaker. (1723: I, ii–iii) Pope praises Shakespeare's 'Power over our Passions' (I, iii), and 10 The Development ...
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... Speeches, corruptions of innumerable Passages by the Ignorance, and wrong Corrections of 'em again by the Impertinence, of his first Editors? (I, xxi) In 1726, a volume appeared with the descriptive title Shakespeare Restored:or, a ...
... Speeches, corruptions of innumerable Passages by the Ignorance, and wrong Corrections of 'em again by the Impertinence, of his first Editors? (I, xxi) In 1726, a volume appeared with the descriptive title Shakespeare Restored:or, a ...
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Contents
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2 Genre | 34 |
3 Language | 97 |
4 Gender and Sexuality | 143 |
5 History and Politics | 196 |
6 Performance | 246 |
Index | 289 |
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