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pt. 1. Set in a silver sea. English literature and the Latin tradition ; The mind of the Middle Ages v. the Renaissance

pt. 2. The tragedies. The true Hamlet ; Hamlet and the psycho-analyst ; King Claudius : Dominus Rex ; The orthodoxy of Hamlet ; The grave-digger ; On a humiliating heresy ; The Macbeths ; Realism in art ; The tragedy of King Lear

pt. 3. The comedies. Shakespeare and the legal lady ; The heroines of Shakespeare ; The repetition of Rosalind ; A midsummer night's dream.

pt. 4. Much ado about something. The silver goblets ; Poor old Shakespeare ; On stage costume ; The merits of Shakespeare's plots ; The ideal detective story ; The phoenix and the turtle ; Shakespeare v. Milton (composite essay) ; The great Shawkspear mystery (composite essay) ; Shakespeare and Shaw

pt. 5. Review of criticism. Professor Bradley on Shakespearean tragedy ; A Shakespeare portrait ; Madame de Chambrun on Shakespeare ; More gammon of Bacon ; Sensationalism and a cipher ; Is Shakespeare an allegory?

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.

Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Reading Library.

England Henley-on-Thames.