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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... Cassius and Brutus , present on stage , voice their anxiety about the threat to the Roman Republic that the ceremony nearby evidently poses . The inner energy Brutus and Cassius exude is infectious , and the spectators are more likely ...
... Cassius and Brutus , present on stage , voice their anxiety about the threat to the Roman Republic that the ceremony nearby evidently poses . The inner energy Brutus and Cassius exude is infectious , and the spectators are more likely ...
Page 150
... Cassius says , in their first interview , that he will be a mirror for Brutus : CASS . BRU . Tell me , good Brutus , can you see your face ? No , Cassius ; for the eye sees not itself But by reflection , by some other things . ( I.ii.50 ...
... Cassius says , in their first interview , that he will be a mirror for Brutus : CASS . BRU . Tell me , good Brutus , can you see your face ? No , Cassius ; for the eye sees not itself But by reflection , by some other things . ( I.ii.50 ...
Page 152
... Cassius has suffered not just a decline but an ignominious reversal . He would have been equal to Caesar but he is reduced to a " common laughter . " Like Iago who tells Roderigo , " Tis in ourselves , that we are thus , or thus , " Cassius ...
... Cassius has suffered not just a decline but an ignominious reversal . He would have been equal to Caesar but he is reduced to a " common laughter . " Like Iago who tells Roderigo , " Tis in ourselves , that we are thus , or thus , " Cassius ...
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