Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 54Gale Research Company, 1984 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 39
Page 11
... rhetorical language of all three plays exerts over us , the formal figures and tropes , and the essentially operatic attitudes they embody . Even so there are some signal differences in their deployment of this rhetoric . If the ...
... rhetorical language of all three plays exerts over us , the formal figures and tropes , and the essentially operatic attitudes they embody . Even so there are some signal differences in their deployment of this rhetoric . If the ...
Page 13
... rhetorical ques- tions ; they could indeed be the answers to such questions . It is almost as if Shakespeare could find no other way of contemplating the life of Antony but by way of rhetorical questions and their paradoxical answers ...
... rhetorical ques- tions ; they could indeed be the answers to such questions . It is almost as if Shakespeare could find no other way of contemplating the life of Antony but by way of rhetorical questions and their paradoxical answers ...
Page 153
... rhetorical crossing , or chiasmus , of the crucial line within it ( " Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fix'd " ) , suggests a placing of the family members on the mast in such a way that a kind of crossing takes place there , too ...
... rhetorical crossing , or chiasmus , of the crucial line within it ( " Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fix'd " ) , suggests a placing of the family members on the mast in such a way that a kind of crossing takes place there , too ...
Contents
The Comedy of Errors | 136 |
Loves Labours Lost | 225 |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 295 |
Copyright | |
3 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action Adriana Antipholus of Ephesus Antipholus of Syracuse Antony argues Armado audience become beginning Berowne Berowne's characters Claudius Cleopatra closure Comedy of Errors comic conventional Cordelia Costard courtiers critics death dramatic Dromio Duke Edgar Egeon Elizabethan ence Ephesians Ephesus epilogue fact farce father figure final scene friendship Gentlemen of Verona Hamlet hath hero human husband identity Julia King Lear ladies language Launce Lear's lines London lords Love's Labour's Lost lovers Luciana Macbeth marriage Measure for Measure Menaechmi ment Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream mimetic nature Navarre opening scene Othello perspective play play's playwright plot Princess Proteus relationship Renaissance rhetorical role romantic Romeo and Juliet Rosaline says seems sense sexual Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's Comedies Shrew Silvia social songs speech stage story suggests theatrical thee thematic theme thou tion tragedy tragic Twelfth Night twins Valentine Valentine's wife words