William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage Volume 4 1753-1765Brian Vickers Routledge, 2003 M09 1 - 568 páginas The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material. |
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... Macbeth of Shakespeare'.3 Bishop Hurd, in the first edition of his Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762) praised the depiction of Prospero's magic as an example of Shakespeare's skill in the 'terrible sublime' (p. 50). From the time of ...
... Macbeth of Shakespeare'.3 Bishop Hurd, in the first edition of his Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762) praised the depiction of Prospero's magic as an example of Shakespeare's skill in the 'terrible sublime' (p. 50). From the time of ...
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... Macbeth's apostrophe to sleep is described as a series of 'conceited similes which ill describe the horror of his mind'. Here, evidently, argument from critical principles has degenerated into mere animus. In his second attack Smollett ...
... Macbeth's apostrophe to sleep is described as a series of 'conceited similes which ill describe the horror of his mind'. Here, evidently, argument from critical principles has degenerated into mere animus. In his second attack Smollett ...
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... Macbeth, Iago, Richard III, Shylock, and Brutus—to be 'too monstrous for the stage'.13 Kames is so horrified by Lady Macbeth's soliloquy arousing herself to the murder of Duncan that he twice describes it as 'not natural', and concludes ...
... Macbeth, Iago, Richard III, Shylock, and Brutus—to be 'too monstrous for the stage'.13 Kames is so horrified by Lady Macbeth's soliloquy arousing herself to the murder of Duncan that he twice describes it as 'not natural', and concludes ...
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... Macbeth, 'Nothing could possibly be greater than Macbeth's seeing the daggers in the air', while in King Lear Garrick was 'inimitable', 'never greater', 'almost inconceivable', 'amazingly great', 'very great', 'extremely moving'. This ...
... Macbeth, 'Nothing could possibly be greater than Macbeth's seeing the daggers in the air', while in King Lear Garrick was 'inimitable', 'never greater', 'almost inconceivable', 'amazingly great', 'very great', 'extremely moving'. This ...
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