Shakespearean CriticismRalph Berry, Graham Bradshaw, William C. Carroll Cengage Gale, 1999 - 420 pages 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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... tragic hero lives and dies a fundamentally lonely figure , traumatically separated from his God , his society and his surround- ings . Marriage both counters this element of separa- tion by showing humans in a relationship which is , in ...
... tragic hero lives and dies a fundamentally lonely figure , traumatically separated from his God , his society and his surround- ings . Marriage both counters this element of separa- tion by showing humans in a relationship which is , in ...
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... tragic and comic narratives stage misrecognition in the quest for recognition . Whereas Shakespeare's tragedies address the need and failure to find a place in another's eyes , the comedies are more concerned with dislocating ...
... tragic and comic narratives stage misrecognition in the quest for recognition . Whereas Shakespeare's tragedies address the need and failure to find a place in another's eyes , the comedies are more concerned with dislocating ...
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... tragic , as it is tragic in Othello's case ) in the fact that perdition does catch his soul , but also in the contrast of his scheming and cal- culating desire to dominate and the half - posturing of his epistolary style , with ...
... tragic , as it is tragic in Othello's case ) in the fact that perdition does catch his soul , but also in the contrast of his scheming and cal- culating desire to dominate and the half - posturing of his epistolary style , with ...
Contents
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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