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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... sexual conquest is destined to be greeted by the jeering of his intended tar- get : Thou canst not hit it , hit it , hit it , Thou canst not hit it , my good man and the even more threatening consequences of his own sexual inadequacy ...
... sexual conquest is destined to be greeted by the jeering of his intended tar- get : Thou canst not hit it , hit it , hit it , Thou canst not hit it , my good man and the even more threatening consequences of his own sexual inadequacy ...
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... sexual appetites . The fate of Isabella and Claudio as a family further em- phasizes the deadly alliance of the two extremes , as the sis- ter faces genetic extinction through her implied sexual re- pression , and the brother faces ...
... sexual appetites . The fate of Isabella and Claudio as a family further em- phasizes the deadly alliance of the two extremes , as the sis- ter faces genetic extinction through her implied sexual re- pression , and the brother faces ...
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... sexual advantage of women , a sex whose representatives created them in the first place ; a man's sexuality is a sin against his origin . But men mar women's creation , that is , they destroy women's being , in doing the sexual deed ...
... sexual advantage of women , a sex whose representatives created them in the first place ; a man's sexuality is a sin against his origin . But men mar women's creation , that is , they destroy women's being , in doing the sexual deed ...
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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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