Shakespeare Modern Essays in Criticism

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ISBN: 9780195006889 | 0195006887
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Copyright: 12/31/1967

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These thirty essays reflect contemporary interest in poetic language, the aesthetics of drama, the Elizabethan theater, and Renaissance modes of thought. Nine new essays chosen from critical writings of the last decade bring the volume up to date and increase its usefulness for both classroom and independent study. Book jacket.

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Shakespeare's Audience: Modern Appraisals	p. 3
The Life of Our Design: The Function of Imagery in the Poetic Drama	p. 19
The Merchant of Venice	p. 37
The Imagery of Romeo and Juliet	p. 72
The Argument of Comedy	p. 79
A Midsummer-Night's Dream	p. 90
Much Ado About Nothing	p. 103
As You Like It	p. 114
The Masks of Twelfth Night	p. 134
From Ritual to Comedy: An Examination of Henry IV	p. 144
Richard II	p. 167
From Richard II to Henry V: A Closer View	p. 188
"Or else were this a savage spectacle,"	p. 206
Hamlet and the Tragedy of Revenge	p. 218
The Imagery of Hamlet	p. 227
The World of Hamlet	p. 242
The Problem Plays	p. 263
Troilus in Shapes of Infinite Desire	p. 283
Tragedy and the "Kingdom of Ends,"	p. 295
Source and Motive in Macbeth and Othello	p. 317
Wit and Witchcraft: An Approach to Othello	p. 329
Macbeth	p. 346
The Catharsis of King Lear	p. 361
The Fool and Handy-Dandy	p. 377
The Ethic of the Imagination: Love and Art in Antony and Cleopatra	p. 389
Coriolanus	p. 405
"Great Creating Nature": An Essay on The Winter's Tale	p. 423
Shakespeare and the Nature of Man: The Tempest	p. 456
The Tempest	p. 462
The Economy of the Closed Heart	p. 467
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