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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... reading , " which " proceeds by a process of correction toward perfor- mance , or at least toward performability , taking account of theatrical circumstances but ignoring the constraints imposed by actual playgoing . " In this movement ...
... reading , " which " proceeds by a process of correction toward perfor- mance , or at least toward performability , taking account of theatrical circumstances but ignoring the constraints imposed by actual playgoing . " In this movement ...
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... reading of gender roles as permanent designations of womanhood and manhood . In this reading , the dramatic attention focused on the gap between the boy actress and his fictional female role signifies most powerfully not a re ...
... reading of gender roles as permanent designations of womanhood and manhood . In this reading , the dramatic attention focused on the gap between the boy actress and his fictional female role signifies most powerfully not a re ...
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... Reading The English Secretary , Robert Evans writes , " The student had simply to select one [ letter ] suitable to the occasion and copy it , making whatever emendations he thought necessary and personal- izing it to suit his ...
... Reading The English Secretary , Robert Evans writes , " The student had simply to select one [ letter ] suitable to the occasion and copy it , making whatever emendations he thought necessary and personal- izing it to suit his ...
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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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