Critical Interpretation

Critical Analysis: Extract of unknown Prose

In the passage given for critical Analysis, the Author reflects on stylistic values of Shakespeare and in the rhetoric of the writer, we are made aware of their opinions in their use of vocabulary and perhaps in some ways their factitious use of examples. The passage is made up of three paragraphs and is a non-fictional piece of prose, aided by the parenthesis of the author’s lexicons. It is a non-diegetic, piece of writing as it is simply the beginning of some kind of essay on Shakespeare.


In parts, the extract is cumbersomely convoluted and facetious; including nouns used such as ‘malignity’ and ‘veneration’ to edify the authors point further on Shakespeare’s works, alluded to in the second paragraph. Significantly on from this in the third paragraph, the author begins again with the first person pronoun of ‘I’ as in the first paragraph, that they will end...