| Description |
xi, 447 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
On the principles of Shakespeare interpretation / G. Wilson Knight -- Planes of reality / S.L. Bethell -- Development of Shakespeare's imagery: introduction / Wolfgang Clemen -- Life of our design: the function of imagery in the poetic drama / Alan S. Downer -- How many children had Lady Macbeth? / L.C. Knights -- Nature of plot in drama / Una Ellis-Fermor -- Emotion of multitude / William Butler Yeats -- Verbal drama / John Russell Brown -- Shakespeare's sonnets and the 1590's / Patrick Cruttwell -- Profession of playwrights / R.A. Foakes -- Argument of comedy / Northrop Frye -- "A midsummer night's dream": structure / David P. Young -- "As you like it" / Helen Gardner -- The merchants and the Jew of Venice: wealth's communion and an intruder / C.L. Barber -- "Twelfth night" and the morality of indulgence / John Hollander -- The Henriad: Shakespeare's major history plays / Alvin B. Kernan -- Form and formality in "Romeo and Juliet" / Harry Levin -- "Julius Caesar" / Maynard Mack -- Hamlet: the prince or the poem / C.S. Lewis -- "Troilus and Cressida" / Robert Ornstein -- Jacobean Shakespeare: some observations on the construction of the tragedies / Maynard Mack -- "Othello": an introduction / Alvin B. Kernan -- "King Lear" or "Endgame" / Jan Kott -- Naked babe and the cloak of manliness / Cleanth Brooks -- "Antony and Cleopatra": a Shakespearean adjustment / John Danby -- Last plays of Shakespeare / D.A. Traversi. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Drama -- Technique.
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