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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Page 145
... Richard III in isolation theatre people are likely to improvise all over the place . ' He felt that present- ing the whole sequence to an audience ensured that ' Rich- ard and Margaret make sense ' . Thus ' Margaret is a non sequitur in ...
... Richard III in isolation theatre people are likely to improvise all over the place . ' He felt that present- ing the whole sequence to an audience ensured that ' Rich- ard and Margaret make sense ' . Thus ' Margaret is a non sequitur in ...
Page 151
... Richard during the performance . Reader after reader after reader has at- tempted to demonstrate this change by comparing Rich- ard's brilliant , apparently effortless wooing of Lady Anne in 1,2 with the apparently strained , ultimately ...
... Richard during the performance . Reader after reader after reader has at- tempted to demonstrate this change by comparing Rich- ard's brilliant , apparently effortless wooing of Lady Anne in 1,2 with the apparently strained , ultimately ...
Page 156
... Richard's location " aloft , " however , also removes him from us ; as spectators , we must decide if , knowing what we know , we still wish to play the audience , to suspend our disbelief so as to believe in Richard's virtue . Richard ...
... Richard's location " aloft , " however , also removes him from us ; as spectators , we must decide if , knowing what we know , we still wish to play the audience , to suspend our disbelief so as to believe in Richard's virtue . Richard ...
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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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