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 58
... nature more than nature needs , Man's life is cheap as beast's . ( King Lear , II . iv . 268-9 ) Lear has yet to be persuaded of the virtue of the ' unaccom- modated ' but has put his finger on a startling paradox . It is possible to ...
... nature more than nature needs , Man's life is cheap as beast's . ( King Lear , II . iv . 268-9 ) Lear has yet to be persuaded of the virtue of the ' unaccom- modated ' but has put his finger on a startling paradox . It is possible to ...
Page 60
... nature ' . It is not ' Nature ' that the play opposes to courtly life , but ' second nature ' . It is here that the authen- ticity asserted by Duke Senior , the absence of which is la- mented in Jacques's famous speech , the integration ...
... nature ' . It is not ' Nature ' that the play opposes to courtly life , but ' second nature ' . It is here that the authen- ticity asserted by Duke Senior , the absence of which is la- mented in Jacques's famous speech , the integration ...
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... nature , by discovering tenderness and forgiveness , by having recourse to his natural virtue in- stead of following a falsely nurtured vengeance . When Prospero reenters the human circle by appearing in his ducal gown , his astral and ...
... nature , by discovering tenderness and forgiveness , by having recourse to his natural virtue in- stead of following a falsely nurtured vengeance . When Prospero reenters the human circle by appearing in his ducal gown , his astral and ...
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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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