Critics Flashcards
1
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L Woodbridge
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Refers to tragedies as ‘interrogative genre’.
Shakespeare doesn’t provide questions, the plays can be revisited.
2
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Richard Eye
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Each generation has to keep rediscovering ways of doing Shakespeare plays as style, fashions and taste is not fixed to history.
3
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Wilson Knight- Measure for Measure and the Gospels
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The Duke controls the play from stary to finish as a mysterious figure. He finds that each case is justified by it’ intentions.
4
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Emma Smith- Measure for Measure: Symmetry and Situation
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The play is full of argument without compromise and an avoidance of half-measures. It is a polarised play.
