Discordia concors: characterization problems of two Shakespearean gentlewomen.(Critical essay)

From: Fu Jen Studies: literature & linguistics | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Historically, an interest in Shakespeare's characters came along with an interest in the Bard himself. This interest in his craft of dramatic characterization emerged as a dominant mode of criticism, character criticism, between 1774 and 1800. As Brian Vickers observes, the Shakespearean critics of that period ceased to discuss plot or language and wrote only about Shakespeare's characters ("Emergence" 11), of whom they share two main neoclassical theoretical expectations. With their new interest in character psychology, they held that characters "should be consistent" and ...

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