Shakespearean CriticismPresents 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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... human control - even though such af- firmations may be illusory . Susan Snyder ( 1982 ) also explores the issue of self - assertion in the face of destruc- tion , observing that a principal function of tragedy is to protest the ...
... human control - even though such af- firmations may be illusory . Susan Snyder ( 1982 ) also explores the issue of self - assertion in the face of destruc- tion , observing that a principal function of tragedy is to protest the ...
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Michelle Lee. mystery , up to the barrier that separates human life and human understanding from whatever it may be that lies . beyond . The new order stays , safely , well back from that barrier . In the comedies there is normally no ...
Michelle Lee. mystery , up to the barrier that separates human life and human understanding from whatever it may be that lies . beyond . The new order stays , safely , well back from that barrier . In the comedies there is normally no ...
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... human evolution , conceived in the Lucretian sense as an ascent from savagery , is depicted . In the first , man is a brute , copulating with beasts and producing half - human offspring . In the second there is less brutality and some ...
... human evolution , conceived in the Lucretian sense as an ascent from savagery , is depicted . In the first , man is a brute , copulating with beasts and producing half - human offspring . In the second there is less brutality and some ...
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