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 264
... murder , and Gertrude's collectedness probably shows her to be innocent of any knowledge of the poisoning of her husband . 18 Further , both the stage directions describ- ing the dumb show and Hamlet's final comment before the ...
... murder , and Gertrude's collectedness probably shows her to be innocent of any knowledge of the poisoning of her husband . 18 Further , both the stage directions describ- ing the dumb show and Hamlet's final comment before the ...
Page 319
... murder , in the form of his dagger hallucination and his vivid descriptions of the consequences of unjustified vi- olence . If we compare it to the guilt of Claudius , who has also murdered a king and kinsman , the difference is readi ...
... murder , in the form of his dagger hallucination and his vivid descriptions of the consequences of unjustified vi- olence . If we compare it to the guilt of Claudius , who has also murdered a king and kinsman , the difference is readi ...
Page 326
... murder is not the same as a murder , though both may be said to have the same impulse behind them . What seems to happen to Macbeth is that the vividness of his imagination makes him feel victimized by his thoughts in a way that ...
... murder is not the same as a murder , though both may be said to have the same impulse behind them . What seems to happen to Macbeth is that the vividness of his imagination makes him feel victimized by his thoughts in a way that ...
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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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