Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 50Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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Page 208
... aristocratic humanism in the age of the nascent abso- lutist state . In place of humanist models of heroic ac- tion , Shakespeare leaves us with a melancholic nostal- gia for aristocratic excellence and the world of great souls . But ...
... aristocratic humanism in the age of the nascent abso- lutist state . In place of humanist models of heroic ac- tion , Shakespeare leaves us with a melancholic nostal- gia for aristocratic excellence and the world of great souls . But ...
Page 209
... aristocratic ideology , which knows , on some level , that its day is past . In this respect it contrasts with the less melodramatic appropriation of Roman history by the leaders of the French Revolu- tion , who , as Marx points out in ...
... aristocratic ideology , which knows , on some level , that its day is past . In this respect it contrasts with the less melodramatic appropriation of Roman history by the leaders of the French Revolu- tion , who , as Marx points out in ...
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... Aristocratic identity was a prob- lem , and writers responded to it with a vast out - pour- ing of courtesy books , poetry , essays , and even epics such as The Faerie Queene , all concerned with the fashioning and hence the defining of ...
... Aristocratic identity was a prob- lem , and writers responded to it with a vast out - pour- ing of courtesy books , poetry , essays , and even epics such as The Faerie Queene , all concerned with the fashioning and hence the defining of ...
Contents
Social Class in Shakespeares Plays | 1 |
Coriolanus | 99 |
Julius Caesar | 185 |
Copyright | |
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