Shakespearean CriticismSandra L. Williamson 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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... Lear's creation which buttress such a reading as well.17 First is the idea that Cordelia , seen as love's em- bodiment , changes relatively little in the course of the play and therefore invites emblematic reading . Put another way ...
... Lear's creation which buttress such a reading as well.17 First is the idea that Cordelia , seen as love's em- bodiment , changes relatively little in the course of the play and therefore invites emblematic reading . Put another way ...
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... Lear'.68 Unlike Othello , however , King Lear also works equally powerfully on a mythic level . Commenting on the exceptional power of the play , Freud relates the pattern of the conflict between father and daughters to myths of the ...
... Lear'.68 Unlike Othello , however , King Lear also works equally powerfully on a mythic level . Commenting on the exceptional power of the play , Freud relates the pattern of the conflict between father and daughters to myths of the ...
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Sandra L. Williamson. indulgence in Lear , would to James have been Lear's rightful exercise of his prerogative as king and father . It was , moreover , as James himself pointed out to his son , the duty of a king to know when and how to ...
Sandra L. Williamson. indulgence in Lear , would to James have been Lear's rightful exercise of his prerogative as king and father . It was , moreover , as James himself pointed out to his son , the duty of a king to know when and how to ...
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Food in The Comedy of Errors | 12 |
Failed Courtship | 24 |
Anthony Brian Taylor Goldings Ovid Shakespeares Small Latin | 33 |
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