Shakespearean CriticismSandra L. Williamson 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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Page 94
... Essex in 1595 , the earl played Erophilus , love's lover ; the goddess of self - love , Philautia , attempted to sway him from Love ( Elizabeth ) to narcissis- tic self - indulgence . The bad joke of the tilt is that Essex's elaborate ...
... Essex in 1595 , the earl played Erophilus , love's lover ; the goddess of self - love , Philautia , attempted to sway him from Love ( Elizabeth ) to narcissis- tic self - indulgence . The bad joke of the tilt is that Essex's elaborate ...
Page 97
... Essex's recent arrest for insubordination . Subversive- ness made Essex seem all the more heroic . 16 Ide , Possessed with Greatness , 23 . 17 The threat was to Essex as well ; departures from the af- fairs of state provided ample ...
... Essex's recent arrest for insubordination . Subversive- ness made Essex seem all the more heroic . 16 Ide , Possessed with Greatness , 23 . 17 The threat was to Essex as well ; departures from the af- fairs of state provided ample ...
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... Essex and Cecil who were engaged in factional struggles throughout the 1590s . Invoking a different era of Roman history , Greville in his Life of Sidney at one point compared Essex to Remus threatening to leap over the walls of Rome ...
... Essex and Cecil who were engaged in factional struggles throughout the 1590s . Invoking a different era of Roman history , Greville in his Life of Sidney at one point compared Essex to Remus threatening to leap over the walls of Rome ...
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Food in The Comedy of Errors | 12 |
Failed Courtship | 24 |
Anthony Brian Taylor Goldings Ovid Shakespeares Small Latin | 33 |
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