King JohnJoseph Candido This volume documents the course of Shakespeare criticism on King John, from the earliest items of recorded criticism to the beginnings of the modern period around 1920. The introduction traces the history of the play. |
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... audience , like the Bastard , ' amaz'd ' and lost among the thorns and dangers ' of an incomprehensible world ( 4.3.140–1 ) , where every source of authority fails and legitimacy is reduced to legal fiction . For the characters within ...
... audience , like the Bastard , ' amaz'd ' and lost among the thorns and dangers ' of an incomprehensible world ( 4.3.140–1 ) , where every source of authority fails and legitimacy is reduced to legal fiction . For the characters within ...
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... audience , to the stronger power of habit in the same audience . The history of John had been familiar to them for almost half a century . The familiarity had grown out of the rudest days of the drama , and had been established in ...
... audience , to the stronger power of habit in the same audience . The history of John had been familiar to them for almost half a century . The familiarity had grown out of the rudest days of the drama , and had been established in ...
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... audience , who still had occasion to remember Pius V.'s bull of deposition . But there is no evidence at all that Shakespeare detested the Queen , while Sonnet 124 [ ' If my dear love were but the child of state ' ] is evidence that he ...
... audience , who still had occasion to remember Pius V.'s bull of deposition . But there is no evidence at all that Shakespeare detested the Queen , while Sonnet 124 [ ' If my dear love were but the child of state ' ] is evidence that he ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
EDMOND MALONE commentary on King John 1790 31 5245 | 31 |
JOSEPH RITSON response to Malone 1792 | 42 |
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