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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... readers of the period. Evidence of this kind helps us to understand the writer's historical situation, the nature of ... reader will be thereby helped towards an informed understanding of the ways in which literature has been read and ...
... readers of the period. Evidence of this kind helps us to understand the writer's historical situation, the nature of ... reader will be thereby helped towards an informed understanding of the ways in which literature has been read and ...
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... reader and theatre-goer is much affected by the choice of repertoire and the style of performance: it is arguable that Garrick's Shakespeare had more influence than Dr Johnson's. Yet the sustained debate over his text and how it should ...
... reader and theatre-goer is much affected by the choice of repertoire and the style of performance: it is arguable that Garrick's Shakespeare had more influence than Dr Johnson's. Yet the sustained debate over his text and how it should ...
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... reader's hair stand on end in terror) could think of 'no piece of dramatic poetry that excites terror to so great a degree, except perhaps the Macbeth of Shakespeare'.3 Bishop Hurd, in the first edition of his Letters on Chivalry and ...
... reader's hair stand on end in terror) could think of 'no piece of dramatic poetry that excites terror to so great a degree, except perhaps the Macbeth of Shakespeare'.3 Bishop Hurd, in the first edition of his Letters on Chivalry and ...
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... reader of Shakespeare:5 In his favourite author he is not shocked with the continual breaches of probability, the confusion of times, the offences against manners, the trampling upon geography; for he knows nothing of geography and ...
... reader of Shakespeare:5 In his favourite author he is not shocked with the continual breaches of probability, the confusion of times, the offences against manners, the trampling upon geography; for he knows nothing of geography and ...
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... reader is likely to be offended by the brusqueness and self- confidence of her criticism, and he may be surprised to find how respectfully contemporaries greeted her work. Dr Johnson admired it, and wrote a preface to the book (albeit a ...
... reader is likely to be offended by the brusqueness and self- confidence of her criticism, and he may be surprised to find how respectfully contemporaries greeted her work. Dr Johnson admired it, and wrote a preface to the book (albeit a ...
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