Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 29Gale Research Company, 1984 - 421 pages This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes 27-56 focus on criticism published after 1960 and provide readers with thematic approaches to Shakespeare's works. The plays, theme or focus of this volume include: Magic and the supernatural, Macbeth, A midsummer night's dream, and The tempest. - Publisher. |
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Page 130
... become cruel , she must close off the flow of blood from having " ac- cess and passage " to the heart , which is the ... become cruel and manly , she moves away from her humanity toward the demonic , toward becoming a life - denying ...
... become cruel , she must close off the flow of blood from having " ac- cess and passage " to the heart , which is the ... become cruel and manly , she moves away from her humanity toward the demonic , toward becoming a life - denying ...
Page 141
... become give us an inadequate or false sense of reality , call into action too few of our human potentialities . Hence ' tragedy ' tends not simply to designate a genre , in which there may be widely separated levels of excellence , but ...
... become give us an inadequate or false sense of reality , call into action too few of our human potentialities . Hence ' tragedy ' tends not simply to designate a genre , in which there may be widely separated levels of excellence , but ...
Page 144
... become panic . We do not pause for analysis , stand off , and say , ' It is the claustrophobia of crime ' ; rather the known phobia maintains our link with the criminal . Then , of course , the moral responsiveness implied by the ap ...
... become panic . We do not pause for analysis , stand off , and say , ' It is the claustrophobia of crime ' ; rather the known phobia maintains our link with the criminal . Then , of course , the moral responsiveness implied by the ap ...
Contents
Magic and the Supernatural | 1 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 174 |
Cumulative Index to Topics | 404 |
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action appear Ariel audience authority become beginning believe Caliban called character claim course critics death Demetrius described desire devil effect Elizabethan English evil example experience expression eyes fact fairies father fear feel Ferdinand figure final force give hand Helena Hermia human idea imagination important interest island kind King knowledge Lady Macbeth later least less lines live look lovers Lysander Macbeth magic magician marriage masque means Midsummer Night's Dream mind Miranda moral mother murder nature never once opening peare performance perhaps person play play's possible present Prospero Queen question reason relation response scene seems sense Shakespeare speak speech spirits stage suggests symbolic tells Tempest Theseus things thought tion tradition tragedy true turn witchcraft witches woman women