Shakespearean CriticismRalph Berry, Graham Bradshaw, William C. Carroll 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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... Pericles he made use of the same kinds of analogies . The court of Tyre became a stuffy board of directors ( making Pericles ' lust for travel and adventure that much more understandable ) , Simonides was a tuxedoed clown , and the ...
... Pericles he made use of the same kinds of analogies . The court of Tyre became a stuffy board of directors ( making Pericles ' lust for travel and adventure that much more understandable ) , Simonides was a tuxedoed clown , and the ...
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... Pericles ' peregrina- tions , the acting is all over the place , " while Clive Barnes complained that the performances " veered narrowly between the painlessly mediocre and the painfully inadequate . ' " 49 The most intense criticism ...
... Pericles ' peregrina- tions , the acting is all over the place , " while Clive Barnes complained that the performances " veered narrowly between the painlessly mediocre and the painfully inadequate . ' " 49 The most intense criticism ...
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... Pericles with Great Feeling . " 28 Pericles is , of course , Jacobean , if the most com- monly held date of composition ( 1608 ) is correct , but it was performed in an " Elizabethan " manner : pub- licly , at the Globe . 29 Amy S ...
... Pericles with Great Feeling . " 28 Pericles is , of course , Jacobean , if the most com- monly held date of composition ( 1608 ) is correct , but it was performed in an " Elizabethan " manner : pub- licly , at the Globe . 29 Amy S ...
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Representation and Reformation in Measure for Measure | 14 |
Sidney Homann What Do I Do Now? Directing A Midsummer Nights Dream | 23 |
Lisa Hopkins Marriage as Comic Closure | 32 |
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