Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 56Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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... meaning of a literary text subsists outside the movement of time , and that literary meaning is , by its nature , structural and synchronic ; whereas if one takes seriously the theatrical idea of sequence , then one will assume that meaning ...
... meaning of a literary text subsists outside the movement of time , and that literary meaning is , by its nature , structural and synchronic ; whereas if one takes seriously the theatrical idea of sequence , then one will assume that meaning ...
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... meaning stable and " structured , " and replace the term " structure " with the term " sequence , " the relationship between the two plays can be seen to be straightforward and coherent . Hal's interview with his father in the first ...
... meaning stable and " structured , " and replace the term " structure " with the term " sequence , " the relationship between the two plays can be seen to be straightforward and coherent . Hal's interview with his father in the first ...
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... meaning is a problem which also affects historiography : there are , as we shall see , more or less explicit suggestions that transmission may corrupt histori- cal truth and that knowledge of past events is in any case problematic ; but ...
... meaning is a problem which also affects historiography : there are , as we shall see , more or less explicit suggestions that transmission may corrupt histori- cal truth and that knowledge of past events is in any case problematic ; but ...
Contents
Shakespeares Representation of History | 1 |
Henry VI Parts 1 2 and 3 | 76 |
Henry VIII | 195 |
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