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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Page 206
... tell old tales , and laugh At gilded butterflies . ( V.iii.8-13 ) But the childlike humility of this speech is a function of its childlike presumption , for Lear also tells Cordelia that they will " take upon " themselves " the mystery ...
... tell old tales , and laugh At gilded butterflies . ( V.iii.8-13 ) But the childlike humility of this speech is a function of its childlike presumption , for Lear also tells Cordelia that they will " take upon " themselves " the mystery ...
Page 266
... tells it slant and incomplete . If the same actor doubled as Fool and Cord- elia , then we may see each character ... tells Lear the abrasive truth about his own folly . But the Fool cannot tell Lear the whole truth . When the King's ...
... tells it slant and incomplete . If the same actor doubled as Fool and Cord- elia , then we may see each character ... tells Lear the abrasive truth about his own folly . But the Fool cannot tell Lear the whole truth . When the King's ...
Page 341
... tells Ferdinand that the actors , " all spirits , " have " melted into air . " Thus too shall men disappear : " We are such stuff / As dreams are made on , and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep " ( IV . i . 156-58 ) . But then ...
... tells Ferdinand that the actors , " all spirits , " have " melted into air . " Thus too shall men disappear : " We are such stuff / As dreams are made on , and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep " ( IV . i . 156-58 ) . But then ...
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The Jealousy of Leontes | 156 |
Further Reading | 174 |
Character Studies | 189 |
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