Shakespearean CriticismThis detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Beginning with Vol. 60, the series replaced its annual compilation of essays representing the year's most noteworthy Shakespearean scholarship with topic entries, comprised of essays that analyze various topics or themes found Shakespeare's works. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Each volume includes a cumulative character index, a topic index and a topic index arranged by play title. - Publisher. |
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... Cleopatra- Caesar is focused on the future and views time as an instrument that progresses linearly , Antony clings to the past and continually strains against the pressures of time , and Cleopatra regards time as a pliant , continuous ...
... Cleopatra- Caesar is focused on the future and views time as an instrument that progresses linearly , Antony clings to the past and continually strains against the pressures of time , and Cleopatra regards time as a pliant , continuous ...
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... Cleopatra and her volatile imagination , fired into intense activity by her devotion . Through the imagery of her ... Cleopatra's " dream " of Antony ( V.ii.76-92 ) magnifies the image even further : it virtually deifies him ...
... Cleopatra and her volatile imagination , fired into intense activity by her devotion . Through the imagery of her ... Cleopatra's " dream " of Antony ( V.ii.76-92 ) magnifies the image even further : it virtually deifies him ...
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... Cleopatra's " celerity in dying " ( I.ii.141 ) and the immortal worm that " kills and pains not " ( V.ii.244 ) . These oxymora recur so often that they seem inseparable from Cleopatra and her milieu . As her barge floats rhythmically on ...
... Cleopatra's " celerity in dying " ( I.ii.141 ) and the immortal worm that " kills and pains not " ( V.ii.244 ) . These oxymora recur so often that they seem inseparable from Cleopatra and her milieu . As her barge floats rhythmically on ...
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