Complete Pelican Shakespeare: The Tragedies (Pelican Shakespeare)

Shakespeare., William

HARBAGE, Alfred

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Analyzes the character, nature and intellectual capacity of the Elizabethan audience, comparing it to the theater-goers of today

Shakespeare's Audience,

Literature & Fiction

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Offers a summary treatment of Shakespeare's language, versification and dramatic technique designed for the general reader.

William Shakespeare: A Reader's Guide

History & Criticism

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

An analytical record of all plays, extinct or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles and dramatic companies.

The Annals of English Drama 975-1700

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

Conceptions of Shakespeare

British & Irish

Harvard University Press

In the title essay of this volume, Harbage admonishes the critics and directors whose modern--and often perverse--presentations of Shakespeare attempt to locate him in the theatre of the absurd. According to the author, such critics are using the actions of the plays but ignoring the words; his concern is that the plays be read and responded to as whole works of art.  Thus the groundwork is laid for this outstanding collection of essays and lectures--most of them previously presented in various publications over the past two or three decades and all characterized by Harbage's urbanity, wit, and good sense. Devoted to the debate of critical issues involving Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists, the first eight essays, described by the author as "pleas for sanity," include such pieces as "Marlowe Disinterred," prompted by a book nominating Marlowe as the author of Shakespeare's plays; "Cosmic Card Game," a parody of the New Criticism; and "Shakespeare and the Professions," where one section details Shakespeare's opinion of the various professions as they are represented by characters in the plays--parsons, teachers, lawyers, and doctors.  The last part of the book is composed of four essays relating to the history of the Elizabethan drama and raising provocative questions of chronology and authorship. These articles likewise deal with structural problems and suggest new directions for research.

Shakespeare without Words and Other Essays

A Reader's Guide to William Shakespeare

Contemporary

Hill & Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Clean, bright used copy with tight binding. NEVER a library book.

As they liked it: a study of Shakespeare's moral artistry

University of Pennsylvania Press

Shakespeare's Audience

Peter Smith Pub Inc

A kind of power: The Shakespeare-Dickens analogy (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

American Philosophical Society

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