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 118
... fact that its characters ceaselessly attempt to allego- rize themselves and those with whom they have to deal . 18 Angelo and Isabella in particular are both desperately em- broiled in attempts to evade their own human complexity by ...
... fact that its characters ceaselessly attempt to allego- rize themselves and those with whom they have to deal . 18 Angelo and Isabella in particular are both desperately em- broiled in attempts to evade their own human complexity by ...
Page 329
... fact , however , when James receives the satisfaction and glory for exposing this particular female mystery , it is again as a figure located well off stage . The king commits the investigation to the Archbishop of Canterbury , who in ...
... fact , however , when James receives the satisfaction and glory for exposing this particular female mystery , it is again as a figure located well off stage . The king commits the investigation to the Archbishop of Canterbury , who in ...
Page 462
... fact , we know nothing of the sort . We cannot even agree on whether to treat them as autobiography or fic- tion . As a result , we are continually tugging them in two directions at once . . . . Indeed , the poet himself often seems ...
... fact , we know nothing of the sort . We cannot even agree on whether to treat them as autobiography or fic- tion . As a result , we are continually tugging them in two directions at once . . . . Indeed , the poet himself often seems ...
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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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