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His infinite variety : major Shakespearean criticism since Johnson
Title
His infinite variety : major Shakespearean criticism since Johnson / edited by Paul N. Siegel.
Publication
Philadelphia ; New York : J.B. Lippincott Company, [1964]
Copyright Notice Date
©1964
Physical Description
xi, 432 pages ; 20 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Tanselle Z44 0329: Paperbound. Autograph: G.T. Tanselle.
Variant and related titles
Major Shakespearean criticism since Johnson
Major Shakespearean criticism since Johnson.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
Preceptor ; P-10
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-424) and index.
Contents
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 the characteristics of Shakespeare'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 villain / E.E. Stoll)
Section 4. On Shakespeare's satiric comedies
Shakespeare's union of comedy and satire / Oscar James Campbell (1874)
Measure for measure / 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- ).
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
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J.B. Lippincott Company, publisher.
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
United States New York (State) New York.
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