Links Database: Keyword criticism

• "Is This the Promised End?": The Tragedy of King Lear

  http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/lear.html

  Oates, Joyce Carol. "'Is This the Promised End?': The Tragedy of King Lear." (Originally published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 33.1 (1974): 19-32. Oates examines the scene in which Lear awakes to find Cordelia beside him (4.7) and how it functions in terms of the end of the play:

  keywords: art, criticism, end, king, Lr, lear, tragedy

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet

  http://web.archive.org/web/20041013134453/www.netcomuk.co.uk/~iandel/index.html

  Ian Delaney's A Short Course on Shakespeare's Hamlet offers a wealth of information for the intrepid student. The site offers commentary on each act, poses questions, and provides very informative supplementary materials and excerpts from influential criticism:

  keywords: criticism, exerpts, delaney, hamlet, questions, study guide

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Courses

  valid as of 2005-10-25

• Hamlet Haven

  http://www.hamlethaven.com

  This website, created by Harmonie Blankenship, hopes to assist in the navigation of Hamlet scholarship by grouping scholarly publications that use similar approaches and that treat similar subjects. You can narrow your search by selecting characters, subjects, or approaches:

  keywords: Ham, Hamlet, Ophelia, criticism, scholarship, bibliography, annotation

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > Hamlet

  valid as of 2007-11-30

• Hamlet Online

  http://www.tk421.net/hamlet/

  Hamlet Online is a fantastically comprehensive site created by John Hubbard, an Electronic Source Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Navigate through this page to find a number of sites offering course materials, full texts, translations, and Hamlet pages ranging from the seriously studious to the humorous and playful:

  keywords: criticism, ham, hamlet, links, papers, summaries, translation

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Hamlet

  valid as of 2005-10-18

• Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism

  http://www.geocities.com/litpageadd/moultongeneral.html

  Moulton, Charles Wells. Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, 1901. Text provides a collection of commentaries and criticism from the Early Modern Period through to the late nineteenth century:

  keywords: collection, criticism, english, library

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles > Historical (pre-1935)

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

  http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

  Gray, Terry. Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet, 1995-2005. Gray's site has an excellent list of links to Shakespeare criticism on the Web:

  keywords: criticism, links

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Collections of articles

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Ophelia - A Letter by a Victorian Actress (Hamlet)

  http://shakespearean.org.uk/oph1-fau.htm

  Faucit, Helena. "Ophelia" Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters. 6th ed. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1899: 3-21. Excerpt transcribed and edited by Thomas Larque. A discussion of the character of Ophelia by one the the actresses famous for playing her in the Victorian period:

  keywords: actress, criticism, Ham, hamlet, ophelia, victorian

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles > Historical (pre-1935)

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Personations: The Taming of the Shrew and the Limits of Theoretical Criticism

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/02-1/yachshak.html

  Yachnin, Paul. "Personations: The Taming of the Shrew and the Limits of Theoretical Criticism." Early Modern Literary Studies 2.1 (1996): 2.1-31. Yachnin presents different critical and theoretical approaches applied to The Taming of the Shrew and their shortcomings:

  keywords: criticism, Shr, taming of the shrew, theory

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > The Taming of the Shrew

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• Representative Poetry On-line: Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry

  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/indexcriticism.cfm

  The University of Toronto on its website Representative Poetry On-Line provides a collection of poetry criticism written in both prose and verse including articles by Arnold, Keats, and other poets and critics on Shakespeare. Search by keyword "Shakespeare":

  keywords: articles, collection, criticism, poetry, prose, verse

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles > Historical (pre-1935)

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Shakespeare Bulletin

  http://www.shakespeare-bulletin.org

  The Shakespeare Bulletin is a peer-reviewed journal of performance criticism and scholarship that provides commentary on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama through feature articles, theatre and film reviews, and book reviews:

  keywords: criticism, journal, performance, print

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Journals

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Shakespeare Navigators

  http://www.clicknotes.com

  Here you can find the complete text A. C. Bradley's critical classic, "Shakespearean Tragedy." This site was created by Philip Weller:

  keywords: criticism, ham, hamlet, lectures, london, mac, macbeth, oth, othello, tragedy

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Courses and Study Materials > Study materials

  valid as of 2005-09-06

• The Julius Caesar Site

  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/JC

  The admirable Perseus Project has a site on Julius Caesar. A work in progress, the site includes various editions of the text of the play, copious amounts of scholarly criticism from 1623 to 1913, and many Roman materials:

  keywords: caesar, criticism, jc, julius, perseus, roman

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Julius Caesar

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Website

  http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/

  The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust maintains an informative site. Biographical information is provided as well as links to Shakespeare productions and criticism:

  keywords: biographical, birthplace, criticism

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• The Shakespeare Theatre

  http://www.shakespearedc.org/

  Washington, DC. The Shakespeare Theatre website houses an impressive archive of photographs, synopses, production notes, essays describing the cultural context of plays, and critical reviews. Browse their photograph gallery and view images from productions as far back as 1986:

  keywords: program, synopsis, criticism

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Theater Companies and Festivals > USA

  valid as of 2005-10-21

• William Hazlitt's Theater Criticism

  http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/5D/C.Harris.html

  Harris, Colin. "'Polite Conversation': Performance, Politics, and National Unity in William Hazlitt's Theater Criticism." Prometheus Unplugged, 1996. A discussion of Hazlitt's part in the transformation of theater and Shakespearean criticism by Romantic ideas:

  keywords: criticism, performance, politics, theater, theatre, william

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles

  valid as of 2005-09-07

• Writing About Shakespeare

  http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n24/kerm01_.html

  Kermode, Frank. "Writing About Shakespeare." London Review of Books 21.24 (1999). Kermode argues that Shakespearean criticism should return to a focus on the words of the text:

  keywords: criticism, new criticism, text

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual articles

  valid as of 2005-09-07