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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... Coriolanus's dangerous potency . The critic notes that both Dance and Barbara Jefford were superb in the final encounter between Coriolanus and his moth- er , but adds that he was " less impressed by other aspects of her performance ...
... Coriolanus's dangerous potency . The critic notes that both Dance and Barbara Jefford were superb in the final encounter between Coriolanus and his moth- er , but adds that he was " less impressed by other aspects of her performance ...
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... Coriolanus could be prickly , venomous , and author- itarian , yet Olivier also built " a credible , Nietzschean human being , a sarcastic soldier - aristocrat and sour- eyed supersnob . " Review of Coriolanus . The Times ( 14 February ...
... Coriolanus could be prickly , venomous , and author- itarian , yet Olivier also built " a credible , Nietzschean human being , a sarcastic soldier - aristocrat and sour- eyed supersnob . " Review of Coriolanus . The Times ( 14 February ...
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... Coriolanus , declaring that his cel- ebrated “ death fall was like the fall of a God from Olym- pus . " Winter , William . " Coriolanus . " In his Shakespeare on the Stage , third series , pp . 196-231 . New York : Moffat , Yard and ...
... Coriolanus , declaring that his cel- ebrated “ death fall was like the fall of a God from Olym- pus . " Winter , William . " Coriolanus . " In his Shakespeare on the Stage , third series , pp . 196-231 . New York : Moffat , Yard and ...
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Antony and Cleopatra | 1 |
Coriolanus | 124 |
Comparisons and Overviews | 227 |
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