| Description |
xi, 432 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Preceptor ; P-10
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-424). |
| Contents |
Purpose and organization of the book -- Introduction: change and continuity in Shakespearean criticism -- Section 1: On the general characteristics of Shakespeare's dramas -- Shakespeare's truth to life / Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784 -- Art of Shakespeare's romantic drama / August Wilhelm Schlegel, 1767-1845 -- Shakspeare's judgement equal to his genius / Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834 -- Recapitulation and summary of he characteristics of Shakspeare's dramas / Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834 -- Shakespeare's genius / William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 -- Shakespeare's planes of reality / S.L. Bethell -- Section 2: On Shakespeare's history plays -- Shakespeare's pettern of history / E.M.W. Tillyard, 1889-1962 -- Falstaff Myth / J. Dover Wilson, 1881- -- Section 3: On Shakespeare's romantic comedies -- Essentials of Shakespeare's Comedy / Edward Dowden, 1843-1913 -- World of the comedies / George Gordon, 1881-1942 -- Argument of comedy / Northrop Frye, 1912- -- Shylock a comical villian / E.E. Stoll -- Section 4: On Shakespeare's satiric comedies -- Shakespeare's union of comedy and satire / Oscar James Campbell, 1874 -- Measure for mesure / R.W. Chambers, 1874-1942 -- Troilus and Cressida as dramatic experiment / Theodore Spencer, 1902-1949 -- Section 5: On Shakespeare's tragedies -- Substance of Shakespearean Tragedy / A.C. Bradley, 1851-1935 -- Leading motives in the imagery of Shakespeare's tragedies / Caroline Spurgeon, 1869-1942 -- Substance of Shakespearean tragedy and the Elizabethan compromise / Paul N. Siegel, 1916- -- Atmosphere and character in Romeo and Juliet / Edward Dowden, 1843-1913 -- Tragic irony in romeo and Juliet / Harley Granville-Barker, 1877-1946 -- First scene of Hamlet / Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834 -- Embassy of death: an essay on Hamlet / G. Wilson Knight, 1897- -- Motiveless malignity of Iago / Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834 -- Christian overtones in Othello / Paul N. Siegel, 1916- -- On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth / A.C. Bradley, 1851-1935 -- Dramatic function of the Porter's scene / George Lyman Kittredge, 1860-1941 -- World of King Lear / A.C. Bradley -- king Lear / R.W. Chambers -- Section 6: On Shakespeare's tragi-comic romances -- Mood of Shakespeare's last plays / Edward Dowden, 1843-1913 -- Myth and Miracle / G. Wilson Knight, 1897- -- Meaning of The Tempest / J. Dover Wilson, 1881- |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Siegel, Paul N., editor.
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| Added Title |
Major Shakespearean criticism since Johnson |
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