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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... appears natural . This should alert us to these words , and their playfulness . Something may appear natural and be other- wise . Indeed , the point of saying that it appears natural is to express wonder that it is not . This does not ...
... appears natural . This should alert us to these words , and their playfulness . Something may appear natural and be other- wise . Indeed , the point of saying that it appears natural is to express wonder that it is not . This does not ...
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... appears in the first half of the play - in which his vic- tims are largely self - doomed criminals . Yet the murder of the innocent Princes in the Tower is the play's emotional turning - point away from identification of the audience ...
... appears in the first half of the play - in which his vic- tims are largely self - doomed criminals . Yet the murder of the innocent Princes in the Tower is the play's emotional turning - point away from identification of the audience ...
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... appears , Richard plays both roles . But when Richmond appears , Vice will be defined by Virtue , and we will condemn that which most fascinat- ed us . While it is true that Richard is " invisible " to his victims , he is not to the ...
... appears , Richard plays both roles . But when Richmond appears , Vice will be defined by Virtue , and we will condemn that which most fascinat- ed us . While it is true that Richard is " invisible " to his victims , he is not to the ...
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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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